Buckinghamshire

Evacuation to the Country

I travelled with two cousins and a girl cousin and I were put together when we arrived and the boy went to...

WAAF Teleprinter at H.Q.Bomber Command HQ.

We lived in Nissen huts a ten minute walk away through woods to get to nd from work, and our Canteen was...

A lucky escape from a V2 Rocket

Having known the danger as soon as the engine cut out from my father who was an Air Raid Warden with Civil...

Breaking the Code

I had no idea where I was going but the mystery was solved when I got out at Bletchley and was taken...

High Wycombe ARP

The American doolittle's commander was billeted at the girls school in High Wycombe and on the other...

Onward Christian Soldiers

As a child during the War i lived in East London with my parents, George and Marie Wittamore... I attended...

The Duchess and the Land Girl

I went to a wedding of a land girl who was working for the Duke of Kent and the Duchess and her...

No Comfort ?

She remembers her father didn't like the 'army issue' underwear and preferred to wear his own...

Don't Step On the Bombs!

On my rounds I could regularly watch “Gerry” flying over dropping incendiary bombs and often...

First Banana-That Wasn't

Just at the end of the war the first bananas arrived in Aylesbury. My friend's mum had waited for hours...

Royal Air Force

We worked on spitfires and hurricanes, We trained in Buckinghamshire. During the war I was stationed in...

War-time Bletchley Park

I was a Teleprinter Operator trained at Cranwell. In May 1944 all leave was cancelled and so we "Knew...