Air Raids and Other Bombing

Hitler Cleared the Site for Houses

I was born in 1930 and before the war I remember girls dressed in black, covered in bits of cotton and...

Bombs dropped on Aberdeen 21 April 1943

Bombs dropped on Aberdeen 21 April 1943...

Grandma's story

The house was blown up and the door was hanging off - that was the only thing that grandma was worried...

Narrow Escape

As a school girl I used to cycle over the Midland Boad bridge to my school in Horne Lane which was the...

The Blitz: Huddled Together - As Told by Marion Hunter

On one particular occasion when the all clear had been given we came out to find my two brothers covered...

A Near Miss

I lived in Reading during World War II — on day, as a birthday treat, I went with my mother and two...

Ten Green Bottles

I well remember singing "Ten Green Bottles" down the shelter sunk into the grass area to the right...

Sunday Ride Out

One Sunday morning my Dad said "Let's Cycle over to Springfield & see Uncle Ted at Springfield...

Wrong Station

We got of at the wrong Station when the Benton Guns were going off. My friendof Benton Way near Carville...

Result of a Blast

Iwas 4 at the time a bomb was dropped in a nearby street,which was directly in line with our shelter.The...

Ipswich Air Raids

When I was six we lived in Woodbridge Road, Ipswich. My brother was standing on our dustbin when a bomber...

Our Jim's Sixth Sense

Our dog, Jim, must have known when the raiders were coming along the coast... All our neighbours used to...

Exploding Incendary Bombs

The first incendary bombs that exploded were dropped on Bedford in 1943 I think....

Grave yard air-raid shelter

This was built on the edge of the grave-yard and my mother always believed that as she descended into the...

Bombs over Hatfield Peverel

Some houses along the side of the river had their windows blown out....

Grandmother Memory

As a young girl living in the country I remember that when the bombs came over my grandmother used to put...

Blitz

I was born in East London just before the Battle of Britain started so I remember very little of the early...

Machine-Gunned in the Street

I was going down St Leonards road with my mother. My mum threw herself on top of me, before someone dragged...

A Day Out

As the plane approached I could see the swastika....

I Saw Black Crosses on Planes.

I was taking a neighbour's child in the pram for a walk when suddenly heard terrific noise and black...

Bombs Over Bradford On Avon

Joan has a vivid memory of being out in the school playground at Trinity School in Bradford on Avon one day...

Odeon Cinema

On 14th September 1940 our Mother found that she was sixpence short and we were therefore unable to attend...

Bomb in the Field

When the bomb dropped the cows were so scared that when we finally caught up with them they were 2 miles...

Around Caldecote

I can remember as a small boy the German bombers coming over Caldecote on the Coventry raids. The Germans...

Unexpected Father

During the war my uncle Syd, who served with the RASC was home on leave and I was sharing the air raid...

Playtime

As a young girl I was playing in the back garden whilst mum was hanging out the washing when suddenly I was...