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VE Day

Each crew member also got a present- Geoffrey was given a beautiful sports jacket- black and white...

The Tracker in USA

The Tracker left the home port in 1944 and sailed for New York where we spent Christmas until the New Year...

Shot down in Siam - Postscript

While studying the programme for Christmas Day and deciding what we would do, we noticed that there would...

Almost Taken for a Spy!

My mother had used the trunk many years before, on a cruise to South America on the ship...

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Antons Story

The water froze around their anti - aircraft gun . His final trainer plane was an American A16, which flew...

First Stowaway Bride of WW2: Atherstone to USA

I returned to England for 1 year and then went back to America and had 2 more children and then a daughter...

Born in the USA

My father was in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander, but as he was an architect he was assigned to an...

Lancashire to Washington DC part 5

Left Montreal 9.30 for New York, arriving midnight, parted company with Mrs. Hawkeswood, Mrs. McKinsey and...

Anne and Bow

My mother, who lived outside of Philadelphia, close to where she had been born, always kept a set of...

Lancashire to Washington DC part 4

Transferred to Washington, British Admiralty Maintenance & Supply Representative's Signal...

The Japs Have Bombed Us! News of Pearl Harbor - in Kansas

He and his brother, my uncle Thornton, were going to watch a Marx Brother's matinee that afternoon. She...

War Bride in Reverse

I couldn't go over to England on his return therefore I made an application and booked a passage across...

A Wartime Pilot

My Grandpa was a farm boy from rural Michigan and became a pilot in WWII. Back in Michigan, he checked out...

GI Bride

There were six hundred brides, and two hundred and fifty children on the boat... When we came into the...

SS to HMS

My father, Sidney Toone joined the Royal Navy in 1940, and after initial training at HMS Ganges, HMS Drake,...

A Patriotic Time

It was a very patriotic time, I was younger than Russ. They formed as junior air raid wardens and we would...

5BFTS - Florida

I am in the process of setting up a web site which has various stories and information about 5BFTS in...

What Happened to Hi

One day, one of Grandma's friends from Brownies, Hi, was gone... Grandma and her friends have never...

Farming in America

We did not know any thing about the war but i left Jamaica to go to America to work on the war...

Niagra Falls 1945?icon for Story with photo

Niagra Falls 1945. My mother says this was taken at Niagra Falls as she can remember he went there; he...

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USS Mackenzie GULF OF GAETA 1944...

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