Air Raids and Other Bombing

U X B (unexploded bomb)

Two nights before they exploded the bomb, mum went to feed the chickens she got caught by a policeman. On...

Bombed Houses and Bomb Sites

The corridor of land north and south of the thames from the coast running up to London became known as bomb...

A Battle of Britain Incident

We boys had silhouette pictures of the various planes and could also tell from the engine noise whether the...

Childhood Memories in Woolwich

One abiding caution that remains with me is the empathic instruction not to pick up sweets from there...

A Child's War

Dad was very upset as he had worked in London for the best part of the war shoring up bomb damaged...

Bombs in Great Ryburgh

Bomb One: In 1942 we lived in a railway house by the side of the railway line near The Maltings in Great...

Bill Henderson's War

Their targets were the German planes that used to come over to bomb John Brown's shipyards and the oil...

Saving the Evacuees by Alec Titchener

My sisters went to one place, and me and my brother went to another, all in Eastbourne. We used to stand...

The Shelter

My dad, who was in the territorial army, was on home leave, when on the night of 14th March, 1941, the air...

Living with the Horrors of War

My auntie was crying as she dreaded the bombs were hitting Linton as the sky was lit up in that...

An Incendiary Attack Grove Lane

My Father, Henry Roland Fleming, who had served in The Royal Engineers during the Great War, having...

The Anderson Evacuees

So, in September of 1939 all the evacuees from Brighton Road School in Bensham, Gateshead, boarded the...

Milly Harris' War Experiences

Milly's husband also helped on the D Day Landings, cleaning up e.t.c. Milly remembers being very scared...

People I Remember in the War

The School was quickly swollen with extra pupils — private evacuees sent to Bridport to stay...

The Destruction of the "Maille Brise" in Greenock

Sheila McLeod and her sister Margaret Mackinnon were both at school in Greenock during the war. Margaret...

War Through the Eyes of a Wembley schoolboy

In 1942 I went to East Lane School, Wembley.One night in a heavy air raid a 'Molotov Bread Basket'...

Pre-School and School-Time in Wartime

I remember being taken everywhere by my grandma in a push chair even to the age when I was around 5 and...

My War

I remember sitting out a number of raids there, one in particular sticks in my memory when there were...

Sheffield Blitz

The next thing I remember was being pushed out of the doorway by mother and pulled across a blazing heap of...

Saturday 7th September 1940

The council had cut trenches across all the parks to stop German gliders from landing and in each of the...

Living and Working in Bridport During the War Years

This system - using coupons as money - limited the amount of stock you could carry... Tanks and lorries...

Village Life in Glemsford

As we were in the direct line for bombers going to London, we oftenstood in the back yard and saw the glow...

World War Two in Enfield

Some time later on friends, seven in all were in a shelter that received a direct hit, all were killed, I...

Bombs over Chorley

Walking along Westhoughton Rd Adlington by the bottom of Rawlinson Road, near the then knitting factory...

When the Japs came to Vizag, India

In 1941 the Japs declared war on the USA and as Vizag was a natural harbour, preparations were put in place...

War Time Titbits

Children collected shrapnel and fragments of bomb cases and anything else they found lying around after a...