Air Raids and Other Bombing

Thoughts on being Strafed!

I bought the newspaper and turned to leave the shop, becoming aware of lots of noise from outside - screams...

Schoolboy's Memory of a Day at War

My sister, brother and myself were playing around by a river, running between Penzance and Newlyn on a...

SEARCHLIGHTS AND HESSIAN

Whissendine lies approximately 4 miles from R.A.F. Cottesmore, a key R.A.F. and U.S.A. base during the war....

The Young Girl in the Street

My husband could've told you a few tales, One night when he was cycling home he saw a girl lying on the...

Grace's story

From Mrs. Grace Newman: One Sunday evening my friend and I, who worked with me over in Woolverstone in the...

Prestwick colliery Home guard

Here is a Photo of Prestwick colliery home Guard.Back row left to right,unknown, Gordon Taylor,unknown,...

Military Hospital Reserves

During that time a German Dornier skimmed our roof and crashed into the park opposite... During the 59...

Grace's story

From Mrs. Grace Newman: One Sunday evening my friend and I, who worked with me over in Woolverstone in the...

Judith Fox - Saved

German bomber later dropped a bomb in next door's garden, 3 houses gone completely, other one half...

The German Air raid on Guernsey Harbour

Marion Martel interviewed by Becky Kendall of Radio Guernsey at the Guernsey Museum March 2005, transcribed...

Memories of My Son and I during the War

So when he did come home our son didn't recognise him as he was a little baby when he went and was...

Bombs on Chesterton

They dropped bombs in Chesterton in daylight at 4 o clock in the afternoon... The children had just come...

The people thought they were safe

I remember sitting in the scullery — it's now the kitchen — sitting with the 4 children...

A tureen for a helmet.

During the War I, at nine years old, lived with my three older sisters in an old farm house near Blaby in...

Bomb over Brixham

The first lots of bombers - midday - dropped bombs on the bottom of the main street, also on the boats....

A Baby in the Blitz

My dad was in the army in the Middlesex Regiment and I don't remember seeing him until I was about four...

A Parachute and an Unexpected Surprise!

A Parachute and an Unexpected Surprise! and has been added to the site with her permission. About two hours...

An Amazing Escape

I was evacuated to Crownhill, Plymouth from Camels Head and the American forces lived in Blumber Barracks,...

Anfield Road Land Mines

Where we lived there were land mines around Anfield Road....

The Straggler

The 'all clear' had gone and nothing spectacular had occured during the 'warning'. We heard...

War In Nottingham

I worked for Boots The Chemists Offices on station Street Nottingham when Nottingham had its first air raid...

Billeted Soldiers

Her son was in Hull working on reconstruction work, as he was a carpenter and joiner by trade whenever he...

It was lucky I'd already got married

Everything went on just as usual, the church was bombed after we got married though: so that was lucky...

River Bank Blast

This story has been entered onto the site by Emily on behalf of Derek Grey and they fully understand the...

Dambusters

My cousin was one of the Dambusters... His name was on the Mess sheet as one of the Dambusters who actually...

We'd go out to see whose roof was missing

I was living in North Kent near the Woolwich arsenal and the Thames and I remember the bombs being dropped....