Air Raids and Other Bombing

THE DAY I CAME FACE TO FACE WITH A GERMAN FIGHTER PLANE PILOT

As it was so close to France, on a clear day guns could be heard and flashes seen over the water when...

Norwich

One evening dressed in my dungarees I stood watching my three year old brother having a bath... After we...

Marazion memories and others.

One incident occured in 1940/41 when I was in Dorset, walking into Sherbourne with my fiancee, there was a...

"Coming to Nottingham"

One sunday morning I was cycling to Nottingham town centre down Castle Boulevard, when I saw a German...

air raid shelter BY JAMES HEPPLEWHITE

The shells were a sight to see,a red line of dots shooting up into the sky.In the morning after a raid on...

The War Through the Eyes of a Small Boy

I lived about 60 yards from the road track and railway, which were followed to bomb areas and factories....

Firefighting in the War

I was on duty at night time, so had to get ready, as I worked over Bobbersmill Bridge there wasnt another...

My War Years 1939 - 1945 pt 4

We got to the club all in one piece and mom and dad enjoyed their drink while Bert and I had shandies....

What Was That

Monday was traditionally washday, war or no war and I was no exception.The ritual, this particular Monday...

A Lone German Bomber

They also knew only too well the aircraft they heard was a German bomber. Afterwards, we learned that...

Trapped when Duckmanton School hit by land mine

My brother Morris and I were sent up to the Duckmanton Hotel to shelter in the cellar. There were just the...

The Harrison Brothers Chance Meeting

I was born in 1934 so was only young but I had three brothers who were in the services, Harold my eldest...

Mrs Liz Williams' Wartime

The bombs were falling all around us - just missing us...and he just carried on playing the gramophone. You...

Chewing Gum in the Hull Blitz

We lived down Withernsea Street , Stoneferry at that time and I used to walk to the Dansom Lane Youth Club...

Laurence's mystery plane

I was 4 years old and living in Gillingham Kent in 1940, when I was evacuated to Neath in Wales with my...

School in World War 2

My story is about school days during World War Two... When at home and it started to get dark I would help...

Free French Navy in Inverclyde

What struck me as funny about the Free French sailors were their hats. The Free French sailors were brave...

Bouncing Bombs and Forced Landing on a Football Pitch

We went down to Starcross to service a tractor, and a B17 Flying Fortress made a forced landing on the...

"DEATH AT THE DINGLE" (The Fuel Dump at Farley Dingle, near Much Wenlock)

Lorries in those days had their tipping section elevated by means of two hand-turned cranking handles - one...

Barbecues in wartime

Bombs also fell in the garden two doors away. We had to stay indoors and soot came down the chimney when it...

Evacuation in Wiltshire, home in Holloway

During the war Ted lived in Blundell Street near Holloway. Ted remembers being in school in Wiltshire when...

Free French Nave in Inverclyde

We met one or two of the Free French sailors when they were serving here because of our brother. He was a...

Air raid on Luton

My father was an aircraft inspector at the Percival Aircraft Company which was at the other side of Luton...

THE NIGHT DAD NEARLY WENT UP THE WALL

While Dad was away fighting fires, I vaguely remember going down to the Anderson shelter next door-but-one...

Peter's story

We lived in Hull, Yorkshire and were evacuated about forty miles away to a suburb or village near York....

WRNS Third Officer Mary Shirley Bourn (nee Carr) - Mail Censorship during the war

WRNS Third Officer Mary Shirley Bourn - Mail Censorship during the war. It was located behind the Bank...