Air Raids and Other Bombing

My Recollections of the Early days of WW2

My father switched on the wireless and heard the Prime Minister of the day — Neville Chamberlain...

The Day War Broke Out......

The pilot was practicing landing his twin-engined Blenheim at Hendon airfield using only one engine; the...

Memories of Bristol during the War and Long Ashton

She clearly remembers going out to visit a friend and whilst walking there a bomb dropped nearby from a...

Dad’s random memories of being an Air Raid Warden in WW2

The wardens were supposed to get sandbags, lie down and push the sandbags up to surround bombs or pick up...

Growing Up Near The Rolls Royce Factory

I heard later on that the plane that had killed the workers on Nightingale Road was shot down over Dover...

Growing up in Matlock Bath during the war.

I remember my brother buying a kind of wind up gramophone and buying records by Vera Lynn and all the other...

This is how I lived during the war

The German airforce was trying to bomb strategically important Rolls Royce factory and Crewe railway...

Civilian Kid Airman

I worked as an office boy at the BSA site until I was 18 then I volunteered to join HM forces Royal...

The Volunteer Vanguard

Mary, who was serving in the ATS in Ostende, had been granted 48 hours’ leave and decided to visit...

The Raid: The Griffiths Family Have a Narrow Squeak In Bristol

In Bristol when dad was away on the Minesweeper Bramble in the 1940s, the German Luftwaffe with their...

Moaning Minnie

Every evening at home we slept, clad in siren suits, in the Anderson shelter partially submerged in the...

My War, Jack Deacon

My uncle Dennis was in the RAF as a tail gunner in Wellington Bombers. The first wave of bombers would drop...

memories of a pupil at St. Helen's School Ipswich

During the war I lived Palmerston Road in Ipswich and I went to St. Helen's Primary School. St....

The Mad Curate

My father was a curate at St James, Oldham and he was a chaplain to the pioneer core and used to go...

WWII - Christina Ray Edminson - My Story Part 1 Air Raids and Shelters

My dad never made it to his bed that night but the siren went off... My mam was tiny compared to my...

Defusing the UXB at Belfast Waterworks

Well, you see, that one I was talking to you about in the waterworks — that was a landmine, it...

Tip and Run

Was it Star Wars

Dad was talking to the farmer on a ridged potato patch. Life became a little less worrying shortly...

Memories of an air-raid over Stanton

Then one night there was an air-raid on Stanton Ironworks and my Dad said we should all go accross to the...

The Good Friday Raid 1941 - Willway Street, Bedminster

There was a railway running at one end of the street and a tannery and a factory at the other end, so...

Memory Lane

There was a huge crater and the Britannia Pub had disappeared as well as surrounding property. On speaking...

My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part III: Air-Raids)

We were very lucky in that two bombs dropped alongside a farmhouse did not detonate and a Land Mine was...

Sams war by Jane Foster

The Library in Woolston, all of the buildings at the bottom of Manor Road and Pear Tree Green were...

Trapped in the wreckage

My grandmother, an aunt and uncle and two cousins had also joined us as they had been bombed out of their...

Was this the Youngest Contribution to World War 2?

We had just suffered a heavy overnight's bombing less than one hundred yards away from where we lived...

Fate takes a hand

We were visiting my grandma who lived on Brightside Lane, when the sirens went, mum dad I, and my sister. I...