What this meant to me as an 11 year old I didn't know but I soon found out.Rationing of food and...
(2) '16 Taylors Green': The Ames family, our relatives, who had no Anderson or Morrison shelter....
We heard a plane flying very low overhead and went outside to see a German plane dropping a bomb which...
Suddenly it banked and turned northwards above Penilee Road which leads to Hillington Industrial Estate and...
And then we went out on patrol, blackout patrol. Cause all those French airfields which they were left, the...
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We returned to St. Buryan School after the summer holidays in September 1939, to find that the classroom...
This was known as ‘heterodyning’ and seemed to be more associated with German, rather than...
During the next few days it was realised that there had been eight bombs dropped in a straggling line...
Many air battles were fought over the village during the Battle of Britain and later in the war, the skies...
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When the air raid siren sounded we had to leave our beds then out to the shelter, sometimes for a few hours...
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Our house had been destroyed, so we moved to Yarmouth, where Mum and Dad rented a house. Dad also built a...
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