Air Raids and Other Bombing

Childhood Memories -Cox Family

My father had, however, anticipated the outbreak of war and insisted some weeks earlier that my mother...

For Patrick (part two)

As I heard the whistle of the bombs, I was thrown into a shop doorway with dad and about five more men...

Buzz Bombs to VE Day

15a — Mike Gerrard was born in 1935 in London, but now lives in Bidford. Mike Gerrard: No, my mother...

Women's Land Army — Sept. 1939 - Dec. 1942

Next morning it was up early to start in the cowshed at 6.00 a.m. and learn to milk - not with a...

Memories of WW2 through the Eyes of an 8-14 Year Old (Part 2)

When my cousin from Luton came to stay with my aunt we met her at London Road train station and we had...

The Swansea Blitz - Part 3

Swansea was faced with a terrific ordeal on these three I consecutive nights in the heavy enemy attacks...

Len Parker -Boyhood experiences Part 2

I travelled on a bus to a village near Barnsley where a man bred fine whippets, James loved this breed of...

Being Late Saved My Life

In our Fire Service Area there were 4 Divisional HQs – Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and...

Wartime Memories

Experience of Mr. Stan and John Curtis. Acknowledgements – Doodlebugs and Rockets by Bob Ogley Sept...

Experiences of a Young Man

1940 Having spent the previous Christmas with my Grandparents in London and the "Blitz" having...

Wartime Aberdeen

Germany had tried so hard to find the shipbuilding industry in Aberdeen, just like elsewhere, and on 12th...

Daddy's Going Away To Fight Hitler

I knew about nasty Mister Hitler, but was a little unsure what Daddy was going to do to him. Aunt Peggy, my...

Islington experiences in World War II

Some were communal like those underground at Islington Green, Finsbury Square, and on the platforms of...

A Boy's Wartime Memories of Suffolk

Close to where I lived, the whole of the main Ipswich to Norwich road was closed along the length that ran...

Don’t Tell Adolf

Did Adolf realize the Morrison was part of the propaganda war designed to show the Germans that we English...

Wartime Memories

We had an Air raid Shelter in our Garth, which Dad and my brothers, both a lot older than me, dug out...

Bungay Has Been Bombed

As soon as I got there Mr Alexander came in and said that one had dropped in Mr Sprakes front yard, one...

Tony's War

So Many Memories

My favourites were a Mr and Mrs Romer or John and Dinah as they preferred to be called... They had been...

11th July 1941

Later that long day, my father completed the journey home ; 700 miles by rail ; Weymouth to Waterloo ;...

Bombs, ARP and Home Guards

And they were both lovers of the sea, and Father and Uncle had a sailing boat and a motor boat, but they...

1940: A Brief Account of One Schoolgirl's Life During That Year or The Year I Grew Up

I think my main concern was that, if the church bells rang, my parents, working at Feltham, would be...

Some of My Wartime Experiences

Mum and dad took my sister and me to the departure point — a school playground — with our...

Some Recollections of Life in Birmingham during WW2.

We were obliged to stay at my grandmother's house for three days because a huge oil bomb had buried...

Wartime in Beckenham

I suppose that as we were spread all over the London area we were comparatively safe during the holidays...

One Schoolboy's War Against Hitler!

Each London Borough had its own teams of ARP Control points who monitored the fall of bombs and the...