Air Raids and Other Bombing

The sound of war

On the day war broke out, we both lived in Grays-End in Kent- we still do... We knew by the sound of...

German POW's in Belfast

When the sirens went my mother and my step-father rounded up the seven of us children, we were hurried out...

Bombs Over Lincoln

Bombs were dropped off the High Street at Gowts Bridge, also one hit the Nurses Home at the Hospital. Two...

The Doodlebug and the Ditch

This meant that the 'doodlebug' was about to drop and explode in your vicinity... The...

"Boom!"

My sister came to me one day, and asked me to play the piano at a party she was having. Coming home...

Land Mines by Helen Young Year 9

I lived on Leechmere road near Tunstall Hill... Later on, the Bomb Disposal Warden came round to check the...

The Cheerful Messengers

When we reached 15 we all joined one of the civilian services and I joined the AFS. We had very smart...

My ‘St John Ambulance’ Experience During The War

One night we were home when we heard Dublin was bombed. The planes were near water they thought so they...

Perspex Ring

We were not far from Coningsby Air Base and one day during a dog fight between the RAF and Luftwaffe, two...

Exmouth house bombing

I was at the grammar school in Exmouth and there were a lot of German bombers passing overhead... NOTE:...

After the Air-Raid at Roll-Royce

My Grandmother and Mum were at the rest centre that had been set up at Nightingale Road School. While they...

Don't bomb us

At the beginning of the war, we received an Anderson shelter to erect in our back garden... We naively...

Prayers and Love

I was eight years old when the war broke out, Dad was in the RAF and my mother, being Maltese lived in...

The Bad Shot

Our family consisted of my Mum, Dad, and brother and sister. My Dad didn't go to war because he was in...

Experiences of a ARP Warden

We had meetings every week, which were held in North Howard Street School, where we learnt first aid,...

Munitions

I was in the fitting up department of the factory two storeys up... When I got home my mum said have you...

Firewatching

We stood there on the top of the Cavendish store in Chatham High St and told the air raid warden if we...

A stirrup pump , a Bucket of water and a bucket of sand

In the war I lived at vauxhall. my father was an air raid warden. When a raid happened many people went to...

Enemy Parachutist in Burwell, Cambs

I remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old and I went to St Andrew's School in Burwell with my...

Machine-Gunned in the Street

And the first Sunday night, the Germans came over and bombed Belfast... And as the people were running to...

home guard

The dog, Bonzo, hugged the fire and was told by all the men to move out of the way, to let them...

'Going out on Air Raids with my father'

I remember when I was about 10 years old and my father was an air-raid warden... Out town suffered two...

A Low Flying Plane

One morning, I'd just walked into the office to see this Messerschmit plane, flying low between the...

Thank you Horse Daisies

It was a lovely summer's afternoon and I was walking amongst a patch of tall horse daisies in the field...

Living In Poole

My brother's friend said “C'mon, lets hit it with a hammer. My brother's friend held it...

Under the Table

The Germans began to bomb Barrow quite regularly, at night, using the very powerful Land Mines which were...