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V1 (BUZZ BOMB) IN MERTON PARK, LONDON SW20

As the buzz bombs were still coming Mum and Dad decided to send Michael and I to stay with Granny in the...

Frightening Times in Boyhood

Saw Bombs drop in Daylight: One day about 1 p.m. several of my friends and I were cycling through Victoria...

War memories (including the Coventry Blitz)

The night of the fourteenth of November, the night of the bombing, mum, Lil, Mary and Tony, went down to...

One onlooker's account of the Youlgrave Blitz'

As these were the only drawbacks to an otherwise epic evening, it soon became a matter of modest pride that...

Manchester Blitz

Bert and Doris Robinson had a comfortable marriage, in the neat terraced house in Fallowfield. And now,...

My Memories of World War II

Between these two factories, and us there was an Army anti-aircraft battery, which was in constant use at...

AIR RAID

The Warden says the Bus Depot and the Rose and Crown in Warner Road 'ave been flattened and loads of...

MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN OLD KILPATRICK & BLITZ STORIES

A Child's View of the War - Gordon Ivor King

February 1941, I cannot remember if the sirens sounded or not, but Mum, Dad, my sister Thelma and I were...

My War( Age 7-11)

Again the confidence of youth, I knew we were safe, I never expected one of the bombs to land directly on...

Liverpool Blitz

When I was a child I lived in a big house with my parents and my two younger brothers, George and Terry,...

Personal tragedies and Courage

During the Blitz sirens kept wailing, guns kept firing and German raiders kept dropping their bombs. Tins...

EILEEN STARRAT - A WREN'S ADVENTURES PART ONE

And the ops room for that was in the cellars at Belfast Castle, and has since become a restaurant I...

One night of bombs

At the time I was an office junior and working in the city of London and was employed by an export...

ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 1 (OF4)

Anderson shelters used a lot of high grade steel, desperately needed for war weapons, tanks, guns, ships...

Life and the Struggles of the London Blitz

My house was in that area, and we all knew what to expect as soon as darkness fell and the German bombers...

"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 7 - 1943 & 1944 (complete years) & Postscript.

Altogether nineteen high explosive, five firepot, two phosphorous and a number of incendiary bombs fell at...

Memories in a Nutshell

With my mum's permission I went, for the first time in my life, on a train and met Fred the next...

The Worst Night of Our Lives

Our local pub was on the corner of Foleshill Road and Beresford Avenue and behind the pub, on a waste piece...

Jack's story

All the boys read comics and boys magazines such as the Hotspur,Wizard,Rover etc. and they all contained...

Living On A Farm In Wartime

They used the Langsett, Ewden, Bradfield and Derwent Reservoirs for practice runs and Guy Gibson who led...

Coventry Blitz Night - Nov14th 1940

Mam, the three girls and me left by train for Gloucester via Birmingham but at Stetchford we had to leave...

Bernard Houser - Growing up in war time London PART 1 of 5

Some men came along and cut down all the iron railings in front of the houses in Digby Road; Boy scouts...

The War As I Remember It: Part Two

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In 1941, bombers were to come over night after night to bomb prime targets all over the British Isles, and...

The war begins Part 2

I can recall tramping down the garden path in my Churchill Siren suit, a sort of one piece very...