Air Raids and Other Bombing

Patricia Collins' War

A German plane came down near Warley woods and the German pilot was killed — my brother went to the...

The Allied bombing of St Peter Port

Now that brings into my mind, one morning we had to look over to the north, and the Sun was from that...

Anderson Shelters

She talked about Anderson Shelters, which were a way of providing shelter and protection to civillians from...

Great Yarmouth to Ipswich for Munitions Work

Consequently I was given a job on munitions and came to Ipswich to work at Ransome, Sims and d Jefferies...

Living by your wits: childhood memories of wartime Homerton

Ernie was born in 1938 and lived at number 15 Templar Road in Homerton, Hackney. The rest of Ernie's...

The Life Of A Wartime Van Driver

We hear a lot about factory workers in wartime documentaries, but little of transport workers: the bus...

HILDA EDGAR IN THE WAR

I was posted to Thorpe Bay near Southend on Sea on the ack ack I was on a Sperry Predictor, which was...

Bombing of HMS Sussex on the Clyde

What had happened was that a lone plane came over the Clyde and dropped his bombs along the Clyde line One...

My Experience of War as a Child in Pembrokeshire.

It was one of these bombs that had not exploded landed in the field behind the officer's quarters,...

The Last Air Raid on Plymouth

My grandparents were living at our family home because they had been ’bombed out’ from 27...

Manchester Blitz

We could hear the aircraft overhead, then suddenly the splosh-fiz, this was the sound in incendiary bombs...

luftwaffe goes forth

This is a note I sent to our grandchildren a year or so ago , from "Granma's" recollection ,...

The Clydebank Blitz

The crash was the building in Seedhill Road and the thud, from the bomb which had passed overhead and...

Gabrielle Deanes recalls The Night Derry was Bombed

It's about a young couple named Tom and Dorothy, and about what happened to them during the war....

Junkers 88 crash at Colmworth, Bedfordshire

Back to Station X at Bletchley Park where on display are parts of the above mentioned aircraft which...

The Day Rushden was Bombed

Living in Harborough Road and therefore attending Newton Road School I was not directly involved in the...

The night of the Messines Bomb in Derry

It's about a young couple named Tom and Dorothy, and about what happened to them during the war....

Saving the Bacon

The Bullocks moved on to a spacious house in Wimbledon, and Hilda's mother came down from Bradford to...

Blitz on Woodstock Road

East Belfast didn't get an awful lot of bombing because they were trying really for the Shipyard and...

"USAF PLANE CRASH IN MUCH WENLOCK"

In the spring of 1944, Wallace Hayward, an American pilot died when his plane - a Lockheed Lighting -...

A doodlebug hits gasworks in Haggerston

After having been bombed out in Kent Street Terrence's mother refused to go in the shelter; she said...

Living in Suffolk during the War

On one occasion, the service was called out to be on standby for a Flying Fortress that was coming in to...

The Illuminating Light Bulb

Being close to both Liverpool and Ringway airports, he reasoned that maybe there were aircraft flying near...

A Boys War - D G Scrutton

Cecil John Scrutton age 37 Sybil Elsie Scrutton age 33 John Cecil Scrutton age 8 David Gordon Scrutton age...

Air Raids in London and Whitstable

The next incident was sheltering in a shelter in Warwick Road in Stanley Reeves yard; bombs were dropped in...

Pat Featherstone - Childhood memories of Bristol

It was really late before we were allowed to leave the cinema and we couldn't get back into Cotham, so...