Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Kentish War

We were hop-picking in the fields, jumped into trenches and watched the sky full of silvery bombers,...

Great Baddow Craters and Air Raid Shelters

Colleen Yaxley — The Great Baddow Craters I recall a bomb dropping near New Road in Great Baddow,...

School Story

Lord Bath of Longleat was one of the Governors of the school and had said that, if war broke out and the...

Bombs ober Birkenhead by "Jerry"

We learned the following day it had a full bomb load and the crew had bailed out over East Anglia, after...

My Memories of the War in Iwerne Minster

During the war we had a fight over the village, with spitfires and german planes, one of the emeny planes...

Pembroke Dock bombings

It was one of these bombs - unexploded - that landed in a field behind the officers' quarters, opposite...

Hit and Run

Hythe still had a huge garrison in those days, dating back to Napoleonic times - and hit and run raiders...

Bomb Raids Over Hanley

They came over one night and dropped a basket of incendiary bombs on Birches Head Lane... One German plane...

My War

We had an Anderson shelter in our garden and after the ‘all clear’ one morning in 1941, we...

Recollections of My War in Portsmouth

Various things happened while we were at Edgeware road, just around the corner was a big wood yard called...

The Area Air Raid Wardens' Story

We used to read letters from civilians to soldiers and if they said anything like a bomb exploded on an...

Everyday Life in Laindon

We moved down to Laindon from London in 1929 and lived where the Southfields is but they wanted to build...

War in Selly Oak Birmingham, My Dad was a Policeman

BIRMINGHAM SIGHTS I lived on a hill outside Birmingham and as we went into the shelter during a raid, I...

Grandma Green

But luckily my grandma didnt lose anyone in her family. her dad, who was a postman, was called up for the...

A child's memory of the war in Sevenoaks

I remember standing on Sevenoaks station with my gasmask on my back when all of a sudden a doodlebug bomb...

Re- Polish Warship in Cowes I.O.W.

My father , who incidentally was awarded a D.C.M. in the 1914/18 war. was employed as a prison officer at...

An Early Air Raid: On Guildford

It must have been shortly afterwards that we were walking on Pewley Downs, which were at the back of our...

A Family Christmas

I set out from Euston for my home town of Manchester and in addition to the expected discomforts of...

The War of Two Sailors part One

Emil Weingaertner was working as a seventeen year old farm labourer at Banat, near Timisora, Romania when...

Life In Warley Smethwick, Birmingham

As a small boy I was living in Warley Smethwick near Birmingham:- The night Coventry was bombed the whole...

Mike and Grace Birbeck

Home memories My father was the Civil Defence Controller for the Chepstow area; he had an office in the...

The Unknown Warden

Edward was looking in Picton library recently and came across a chapter in a book on the blitz and Mrs Taft...

Fortunes (Mis-fortunes) of War

IF any one life epitomises the for¬tunes of war it is that of my grandfather Henry ‘Harry’...

RUBY'S STORY

I LIVED AT THE GREE FARM COTTAGES IN SMALL FARM CALLED REDLINGFIELD, NR EYE IN SUFFOLK.WITH ME LIVED MY...

Memories of WW2

One German plane came over and dropped some bombs. We went to Milan and met German soldiers who didn't...

Our Air Raid Shelter

Two air raid shelters were erected in our street - my family lived in Middlesbrough as my father was a...