Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Carpenter's Account of a Shot-down Dornier

My grandfather, Jack, was working at Sholden near Deal, on the Sandwich side... Although they didn't...

War time snapshots of plane crash

Traced the German pilot on Great Burstead Churchyard. German helicopter command met and shook hand and...

Bombing of Skegness

The plane had bombed the Tower Cinema near the Clock Tower and houses in Park Avenue. Years later I found...

Porthleven Boyhood

During the war I was in the Army Cadets, aged 14 or 15, and part of our duties was to run messages...

Chesterfield At War

In the war there were barracks in Hardwick Park in the grounds of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. My Uncle...

HIT-AND-RUN-RAIDER 1943 EXETER

The nurses dragged us children away from the ward windows and made us lie down on the floor under our beds....

ENEMY ACTION - German bomber crash, crew killed.

ENEMY ACTION - German bomber crash, crew killed. A German bomber came down in St. Just and it fell on...

Sandbag Filling For Falmouth Hospital.

We didn't fill them all day, we did go home, but I remember four Thomas's lorries from Thomas's...

Dad's Army

He used to bring guns home and Mr Hollands and his brothers used to have competitions between them to see...

Safety in the Shelters

I remember, when they built the air-raid shelters the neighbours all said “we'll not go into...

My uncle Ted

My uncle was called ted kington and he was a real character. It was long before the price went up which of...

Pitsmoor

I remember there was an unexploded bomb at the corner of Clun Road and Ellesmere Road, very near to Mrs....

Coventry/Birmingham Raids

I worked in a high class grocers in the Harbourne district of Birmingham, and I used to walk round...

Just imagine the headlines...

One day when we were out looking for shrapnel, we were out looking in the fields around us and we found...

first bomb of WWII

As it passed over the guns started firing from Sullum Voe, the shells were dropping in the sea and...

fish

In the war travelling through France fighting with the troops, his lorry was shelled by a German plane. The...

V.E. Party - Part 2

Pictures taken at the back of Rosary Road and St. Thomas Road in Erdington in those days Birmingham 23......

I was bombed out

Derek Wilson lives in Faversham. Derek Wilson added with his permission....

My curious brother's near miss

My brother Ron was like all boys and thought he knew better and decided to watch the bomb explode from his...

Ghost Story

They were my father called Bob Simm, Roy Kell and John Evans. My father went to collect Kell but he was too...

Pickled eggs douse incendiary bomb

I was on holiday in Truro with my family when an incendiary bomb dropped straight though the roof of my...

German plane overhead

Told by Mairi Milroy to East Ayrshire Library Staff I was born on the Isle of Lewis in 1940 and guess that...

6) Crisscrossed tape and heavy black curtains

When we went to bed that night my Mother pulled great heavy black curtains over the windows... Despite all...

Terrible Sights for a Child

I was riding my bicycle in Chestnut Street, a tiny hamlet near Sittingbourne. There was an aircraft shot...

Memories of Night-time Dogfights

There were so many RAF places round Cambridgeshire: Duxford, Waterbeach, Bourne and so on - where our...

Another Early Memory

There, once the curtains had been opened, I was shown an air raid over Liverpool - well, the searchlights...