Air Raids and Other Bombing

Gladys's life in the war by Jodie Lloyd

Gladys lived in a cottage in Sunderland with her mam, dad and brother... She said that she could remember a...

JUST DROPPED IN TO MAKE A PHONE CALL!

I started work at the age of 15 years at the Cornwall Electric Power Company, stationed in Delabole, and,...

High-Tailed it Home

When I came to, I realised a bomb had dropped on the bridge just behind me and it had blown me off...

What I remember of WWII

I was not very old when the war started, being born in October 1930, but I remeber that my oldest sister...

A Little Girls Memories

I lived in Little Dunmow, Essex and there were often bombs from German planes landing near by where I...

ENEMY ACTION - bombing, German plane crash.

ENEMY ACTION - bombing, German plane crash. Holmans factory was bombed but that plane, a night fighter, was...

The Horror of Everyday

I remember how the Mill Road Hospital got bombed, the nurses and doctors all got blown up, the babies,...

Scary memories.

At this time the Germans started bombing south east England with V1s... However, after the V1s the Germans...

7 weeks before the End

I was stationed in Belataberg, Germany in the mountains 30 miles outside Berlin. We checked the nearby...

Surviving a machine-gun attack

When I was 6 years old, my mother, two sisters, brother and I, lived with my Father, in the Army barracks...

Tolson's War

It was only later that he found out the the plane was a Supermarine Spitfire mk 1A from RAF Leaming in...

Chipolatas and Chips

Messengers who were on late-duty would normally finish at 6.30, if the sirens during the Blitz started up...

Fire in the sky in Paisley

He told me that one night, when he was on his usual patrol with another man, he noticed a floating bomb...

My Air Raid Shelter Memories

Before the Morrison shelters were developed my parents had managed to rig up their bed as a shelter, which...

My Own Early-Warning System

Most nights the air-raid siren would go and my brother and I would jump into our siren suits and, with my...

St. John's , Surrey

Whilst I was staying with my grandparents following damage to our house in Norwich, I was on the Common one...

Falmouth Hotels Destroyed in Bombing Raids

All the seafront hotels by then had been commandeered for the WREN's, Americans and the Navy and the...

My Lucky Escape

My mother used to leave my pram at the bottom of the stairs, behind the door where sometimes I would be...

From Evacuee to Plotter

I trained as a Clerk SD, or in other words a plotter, in Fighter Command and was posted to Colerne in...

The day Grandma saved my daughter

A few days later my daughter heard coal being delivered and shouted for her mammy thinking the noise was...

Childhood Memories

Friend in Far East in Army — fighting Japanese, sent to guard Dutch airfield — everything was...

Fireball in the Sky

On a beautiful Saturday evening in August I met my Uncle and Auntie who were going to visit my other Auntie...

Manchester Memories

We lived near a river; German bombers could see the moon reflecting off it and followed it to Manchester....

Erdington Memories

Police called at our house to inform us that my Grandma & Grandad had been bombed out in Aston...

A childs war in Falmouth

As a boy aged 8 ½ years at St Agnes in 1940 I can remember a German Bomber dropping bombs in Dr...

My War Years 1939 - 1945 pt2

Raids on all cities north of Birmingham meant that the Germans flew over Smethwick and so we got the air...