Stories categorised in 'Air Raids and Other Bombing'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
The fishing port of Port-en Bessin was set as the dividing line between the Anglo-American armies and was...
"He,s the little boy that Saunta Clause forgot And goodness knows he didn,t have a lot He wrote a note...
The Caretaker of Lloyds Bank, Wind Street, called us to help him get the incendiaries off the partly flat...
It was a dry clear night and, as I lived on a tram route that took me almost to the door of...
Surgical and theatre nursing At the end of my first year I was despatched to work as a junior theatre...
That was the famous MTB raid on Malta and the Italians and the Germans developed a very healthy respect for...
As the crow flies, Peckham isn't far from Kent, over which the Jerries used to come on their way to...
Most of the traffic was for the army; lorries big and small as well as Bren gun carriers and proper big...
I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room of our rented house in Winton with my two brothers...
The American carrier Wasp, had sailed from Gibraltar, halfway to Malta but had remained out of range of...
Having flown low together across the English Channel from Caen-Carpiquet to Lyme Bay, Feldwebel Karl Blase...
On joining I was posted, along with about 30 other Land Girls, to a WLA hostel in Letterston, in...
The pumps were working like mad to pump the water up-hill through a narrow passage running alongside...
The town of Redruth, where I lived, was not a target but, not that I knew at the time, it was once...
My father regularly acquired bundles of softwood off cuts from a factory situated on Slough trading estate...
The bombing in Bristol had finished by then....
Company HQ was was in Debdon Gardens Drill Hall and sites I served on or visited were Ryton, North Wylam,...
The first months of the War were relatively quiet, with just a few German planes making sorties over...
I lived in Eden Crescent, Leeds, West Yorkshire, near Headingley Cricket Ground with my parents Colin and...
Then my brother- on leave from the Royal Navy where he was escorting the trans- Atlantic convoys- came...
Most of the civilians had been evacuated, but we had a large number of Service Personnel, Wrens, Waaf and...
Many a dawn we emerged from the cellar after the raids to see our golden cornfields ablaze with incendiary...
The noise got louder and we saw a flight of about 25-30 German bombers with accompanying fighters heading...
The bombing started in 1940 and my sister and I had a week off from school, half term and we had a...
The next time the Army came to the village was for about three weeks and we had in the field by the...
The first six months of the war were quiet, just odd raids — but town of Ipswich was often passed...
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