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Stories categorised in 'Air Raids and Other Bombing'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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War Time Memories

That summer, our grocer Harold Graham of the Golden Tea Pot Newry advised my mum to stock up on certain...

Cilvilians at Waricon for Story with photo

I remember one day we tried to take a load to Coalhouse fort, which is a few miles further down the road,...

Battles of Hastings

There were many Canadian RAF personnel stationed in one of the large hotels along the Hastings front, and...

One Boy's War by B Mills

The aircraft seemed to lift at the last minute missing the house and crashing into the park. Bits of rubble...

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The War in Ruislip Manor Part 1

On the London Underground on which I travelled frequently all tube train windows were covered with netting...

Brenda Haley -Bomb damage at home

Dad heard during the night that Savile Town had been bombed, so one of his work mates lent him their bike...

Dell Wall

"There's a holly tree covered with berries at Dell House," said Charlie... "Come on lets go...

From Brum to the Land Army

All right, they had 15 hours bombing, Coventry, we had between ten and fifteen hours every night for two...

Evacuees and Americans - A Child's View of War in Ipswich

Imagine my father's horror following an incendiary raid in the road next to ours, when he came off...

My War

Not before he had seen the Tate and Lyle factory go up in flames the night the bombing was very heavy on...

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 1

Transcript of an interview with Maggie Fink nee Jones, by her grandson Luke Mottershead as part of a school...

Air Raid Shelters

About 1.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 3 September, an enemy bomber jettisoned his load clear of London and the stick...

Memories of Chasing Rabbits and Souvenir Hunting

As a Boy Scout I soon learnt to deliver messages in the pitch dark, from Old Lakenham Hall over fields,...

A Child's Point of View

I had spread my toys out on the large table in the middle of the living room, army trucks and tanks on...

Poppy's Wartime Memories - Part 1, 1939-1940

My Granny had one and this was to be shared between tow houses, Granny's and Mr and Mrs Sayers next...

My life in the RAF. (Part 1).

The morning of the third arrived and at eleven a.m. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced on...

Day of Heartache

With our labels on our lapels and a small suitcase each we arrived at Doncaster - a horribly dark miserable...

Ashborn as an Evacuee - and 50 Years Later

Right opposite our house was the air raid warden's office and they informed my mum that the bomb had...

The Second World War, through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-Old Boy

Yours sincerely Deborah Devonshire The following is a transcript of a letter from Eric Oliver to the...

The Mystery Raiders of 1940: Air Raids in Surrey

In wondering why or how the Heinkel came to be flying without companions, I found myself wishing for his...

How the War Came to Rural Devon

Recollections of the war years in some small Devonshire communities recorded by members of Silverton...

What Did You Do

Frequently, we were asked to be make believe casualties suffering from assumed bomb damage in an Air Raid,...

Blitz on Belfast

We spent holidays at the cottage and my grandmother used to take her children there after Easter each year...

Recollectionsicon for Story with photo

As a small boy, I tried to talk to my grandfather about what had happened to him when he was in France...

Memories of a Newcastle Child

My Mother, Father, Brother Bill and I lived at 185 Stanton Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. I remember on the...

A Young German`s Life 1943-45icon for Story with photo

The following autobiographical report of what it was like to be a young German boy during WW2 was sent to...

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