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15 October 2014
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Bombs on Bournemouthicon for Story with photo

Jack and Margaret both grew up in Bournemouth, Jack at North Cemetery Lodge, where his father was cemetery...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 23: Winterslag, Belgium

They reverted to drinking and admiring the cafe owner's wife but one did speak frankly to Butch as the...

My Life My War - Chapter 5b

The next morning was a catastrophe, my good friend feeling the urge to go in the middle of the night, no...

My War-Time Memories (aged 2 to 7)

Had Mum and Dad been able to foresee the events that were to unfold upon our return, their decision to...

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The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 26b: The Brandenburg Gate

Butch was invited to his camp in the Russian sector of Berlin in woodland, just off the road leading to...

Ken McGuire-Wartime Memories

After a few weeks of severe bombing it was decided that we better go back to Fleetwood, what we didn't...

My War Experiences In London

One night a bomb fell in the High Road between Clapham South and Balham Underground stations making a huge...

Bunty's War

As I left West Dulwich station a Flying bomb passed in the opposite direction I heard the engine stop,...

My War part 3.

it was there that i saw the first G.I.american soldiers to in this country 1000,s of them all lined up by...

A German Soldier's Story

Story 1 was written by my late father who was a German POW in Pembrokeshire in WW2 and Story 2 by his...

Russian Pyotr Bokatenka time in Occupied Jersey

Le Flem senior, “Seaview”, Mont Cochon; Waltaer Bastard, “Manor Farm”, Rue De Bas,...

Memories of the Norwich Fire Service

To start with I worked in the office at the fire station which wasn't very different from the Norwich...

Wartime Experiences of a Girl in her Twenties [B.Devereux : Part 2]

Very soon I was working in an army records office Pioneer and Intelligence Unit, situated in Dunholme Manor...

Happy Hampshire Childhood

My father was musical director of Southampton Icerink and had his own dance band, my mother taught piano...

Effie's War in Lincolnshire - Part 3

He arranged for volunteers from BGS to pick potatoes on his farm and some twenty of us duly cycled over to...

Reflectionsicon for Story with photo

We didn't know about Dunkirk, but in June 1940, we were evacuated from the port of St. Nazaire by a...

Johnny Stinger's Story

He married my Mum in 1944 at St. Mark's Church Preston, I have an older brother called Eddie after my...

My Life in the RAF (Part 4).

In January 1942 I was posted south to one of the main 'Battle of Britain' stations - 'Biggin...

Memories of the Peoples War.

Not far away from where I lived was Carpenters Road, which had lot of factories which had been bombed out...

Village Life - from Evacuees to the Americans

We had a new, talking about evacuees, the next schoolmaster that came, Mr Rose, he came from Gravesend with...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 27: Itzehoe to Essdorf tank barracks to Hamburg

When she sang "Unter den roten Laterne von Saint Pauli", fixing her gaze up at Butch he was...

Jewish Lady's Social Life in London [R.Amdur]

The main point in this story concerns one group of US airmen in particular, they were all New York Jewish...

My Father's "Brown Babies"

Against his will he had to leave his "babies" in England after World War II... I first heard the...

Madagascar

Rakoto told me later that there was a yearly ceremonial by lower-cast tribes who chose a young girl to...

A Bury Boys War

In June 1943, the 94th USAAF bomb groups B17 Flying Fortresses arrived at Rougham Airfield. Eight and nine...

Got Any Gum, Chum?

One evening in particular I remember, we had knock on the door during a blackout; there were loads of RAF...

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