Air Raids and Other Bombing

Falmouth at War

Before the war in 1938 & 1939 a German naval cadet training ship 'The Schleswig Holstein' made...

Being a Policewoman during the war

These were bombed quite often but it did mean that as the German planes were flying over the real ships...

Home Guard Recollections at Saunders Roe

Early one morning a flight of Messerschmiotts came up rom the south of the Island, followed the river...

Dodging the Bombs & Bullets

wartime memories

It was said that a light showing from Lady Rollesten's house attracted the bomber, but considering the...

Memories of ww2 as a youngster

Along First Lane between Hull Road Anlaby and Boothferry Road Hessle, the Army had a permanent line of...

Teenager in WWII

My brother used to keep 400 pigs down at Wyke for the war effort, we were down there feeding them one...

BARNEHURST,Kent 15 September 1940:A Survivor's Lucky Escape

With that,I flung myself face down into a shallow depression in the ground,intending to crawl away.This...

A Short Break in Transmission

On the morning of 1st June 1943 when Blackgang had switched off for maintenance, what was not realised was...

Love from Grandpa

We walked up Victoria Road about a quarter of a mile to Six Ways Aston to catch the first Tram and suddenly...

Saved by a Wellington Bomber - a Malta Story

From our house we watched dog fights in the air, the dramatic sight of a Gozo boat being blown up, a German...

My Memories of the War Years-Part One

Enemy attacks on Derby in 1940 were very limited on on the 25th October 1940 a Messerschmitt on a...

my world war story

The Beginning of the War

The chunks of clay Dad had dug up became joints of meat and the elderberries on the bushes were fruit...

Grandad, Jim Law's memories - 1934 - 45

Occasionally a German bomber would get shot down and early one morning this big black sinister Dornier...

GRANNY, VERA LAW'S MEMORIES

Several bombs were dropped in and around Elham and Lyminge but fortunately no one was seriously hurt....

Air Raids in Eastleigh

In early 1945, a formation of New Zealand Mustangs came into Eastleigh Airport and two collided, one...

My Story: War Baby Living Under Ground on a Bomb Site!

My Story: Mum and Dad were married on Boxing Day 1932... My first memory two green painted cots side by...

Can You Hear Something Ticking?

Because of the long hours of duty you often went to sleep in the back of the lorry taking you to the...

War work in Weymouth

My mother didn't want me to go in the Forces and spoke to a Charlie Massell who was a foreman at...

DADDY, WHERE’S YOUR TROOSERS?

There were just me, my mum and my dad at home in the Premier Drive area of north Belfast: as the crow...

Betty Scriving's War

And we also lost our French teacher Miss Oldacre; she was staying in a hotel at Torquay harbour when the...

Memories Of the Rushden Bombing

History tells of the route of the bombs from the first in the gateway of the Gasworks, one in the roadway...

Dot's war

Unofficially I went and helped my Dad, Captain Davis, as a firewatcher in Milland House... In the morning I...

A YOUNG VECTIAN'S WAR

My duties included carrying messages between the Town Hall, where the head warden co-ordinated activities,...

'DOG FIGHT' 19 September 1940