When we emerged, all hell had let loose, Liverpool was on fire, bombs dropping, guns blazing, people...
I also remember a daylight raid on Bristol, when they bombed Filton, men came home saying how terrible it...
They sounded very close as they were mobile and moved around to get the best advantage for firing at the...
I remember an incident when an incendiary bomb had been dropped around the area of Firth Street Mills in...
Audley itself, as a small village was not a target of enemy bombers, but it was on the route to the Crewe...
We moved to Exmouth in 1942, the coastal towns suffered what were known as ‘Tip and Run’ raids...
Because of the attention of the Luftwaffe, this area became known as 'Bomb Alley'. If they had any...
My father a former regular soldier was called up and was given the rank of Sergeant Gunnery and drill...
In 1936 my family consisting of mum, dad, Harold, Eric, Phyllis, Beryl and myself moved to a place called...
We were evacuated to Hassocks near Brighton. We all got evacuated to a place called Blechley near Milton...
Living within an area, which was bounded by Shipyards, Steel Works, Railway Marshalling Yards, and one of...
It was on its way back from Coventry where the German planes went to drop their bombs. My father was the...
I stayed together with one of my friends at a house with a pig and got blamed for opening the stile door...
I tasted freedom! and remember thinking "if this is war, its not so bad". One day my mother, small...
The date that sticks in my mind is 28th April 1942 and the time 10.30 a.m. At that moment I was in...
In Bournemouth Kay set out for Sybil's. As Kay reached the Metropole Hotel, the first explosion, a...
He was given a Canadian rifle with no front sight and ordered to defend the suburb of Walton, Liverpool...
The same bomber followed the railway line near Cromwell Road all the way up to bomb Montepellier Station......
Early in the 1940s after Dunkirk and the Home Guard or L.D.V. as they were then known had been formed, me...
My mother was in her twenties and living in the seaside town of Southend with her family just by an...
John Kemp — Parachute Mine. I think it was aimed at Hoffman's, but I don't know how a bomb...
We had our honeymoon here at the Adephi - 26th Dec.1942 after being married at the Norwegian Seamens Church...
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