Air Raids and Other Bombing

I must have looked nuts!

When I woke up again and sat up, all the windows were in, and all of my bed was covered with the...

You Missed

I was a lad of 14 years, when one morning during the Battle of Britain, I was standing in the back garden...

Time off for blackberry picking!

We had relatives at Woolwich Arsenal. Our cousin used to come and stay to get a break from all the bombing....

Memories of bombing in Nottngham

There was Boots Fire Station, Meadow Lane, and St Christopher's Church... I remember learning about...

My gran's memories of Boness during the war

My gran was a bike messenger during the war. My gran was hit in the head by flying shrapnel whilst working...

A YOUNG BOY'S MEMORIES

When an air-raid started we used to go into the cellar, which had the windows blocked in with thick boards...

Little Memories of the War

We didn't go there all the time because my sister had bronchitis and we had to sit behind the stairs...

Fast Asleep in Gateshead

In the background could be heard the explosions. My gran and grandad, aunt and uncle, mum and dad, sisters...

Quickly Lie Down

During the War I remember an occasion when my Mother, brother and I set off in a single decker bus from...

"Ping Ping"

One day my Mum went in to the shelter with my Dad, and my sister and her baby. I said “I've come...

The bombing of Hounslow

Each night they came down to try and bomb the railway lines... We defended the railway using an Ack Ack gun...

Saved by the light in the Blackout

Before dawn in the 9th of April 1945 several “W.A.A.F.M.T. Drivers” were sleeping in a Nissan...

McSorleys' Miracle

Dr McSorley, he was attached to the Mater Hospital, and he was down there attending to people... Now, he...

Safe Area?

This was to act as a decoy for the Germans who were trying to bomb Southampton. It really wasn't any...

First time I waved at a German gunner pilot

It was the 20 January 1943 and I was lying in bed at a friend's house... I said to my friend...

Dance Hall Days

I went out with an American and a Canadian soldier who I met at the dances at Wimbledon Town Hall....

'Get off the streets'

If you saw a cellar lid you could lift up and get in, you'd do it. I remember going in the cellar...

A 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...

Hurricane ramming Me110, Battle of Britain

The incident took place on 27 September 1940, when Flying Officer Percy Burton of No.249 Squadron...

Shot up in the playground

There were steel bootscrapers by the door and With everyone pushing to get through the door more children...

John Sweetman — Sea Mine in Frittenden?

John Sweetman — Sea Mine in Frittenden. The bomb disposal people were called and deactivated the...

Army number: 458155

I moved to Farnham to continue looking after the pilots, while there I saw a bomber being tested that was...

Time Bomb at the Sportsman's Pub

It was a time bomb and went down under the houses in Cross Street and ended up near the wall of the...

Joyce Swaddle Marks — Doodlebugs in London

In 1944 I was working in the London Chamber of Commerce when we had a close shave with a German Doodlebug....

Sneak raid 1940

We were halfway up the Mount in the Dane John Gardens when without warning there came the whistle of a bomb...

Out Walking The Dog

I lived with my parents and my brother on Louisville Road in the Upper Tooting area of London and, my...