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Falmouth around VE Day

Hundreds of tank-landing craft and personnel carriers, all with machine guns mounted, merchant navy ships,...

Air Raid off the Roman Road

Mum was terrified of the air raid warning sound even to the last days she always said that it put fear into...

The Blitz and Beauty of Bath Apples

They mistook the Belfast waterworks for the Belfast docks and they dropped and awful lot of bombs into the...

The Cardross Blitz

It was after dark on the evening of the 14th of March 1941,the second night of the Clydebank Blitz.My aunt...

Interview with Adeline Yeardley

We went to go to work the next morning, it was after Christmas, I think and we got to Victoria bus station...

Interview with William L Hodson

There was a row of houses just down the street, Meldrum Street, and there was a street went along there...

Surviving the Southamton Blitz: Betty's Story: Helping to build Stranraer Flying Boats and Hurricanes

I decided to work at Woolston near Southampton at the "Supermarine" aircraft factory, five miles...

The bombing on s.e. London

Interview with Adeline Yeardley

We went to go to work the next morning, it was after Christmas, I think and we got to Victoria bus station...

WARTIME IN CALLINGTON CORNWALL

I was in the blitz of Plymouth on the night after the King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth had visited the...

Frightened by Bombs.

My mother and I went to the communal shelter which was situated in the basement of the Co-op Emporium.We...

Grandad is covered in soot

My Grandma and Grandad came round as soon as the siren went, as they always did, and we were trapped in the...

Life between Plymouth, Nottingham, Looe and the bombs!

Life between Plymouth, Nottingham, Looe and the bombs. However, I came back from Looe again at some stage...

Life in Swansea During the War

I remember walking up Phillips Parade, near the old Swansea Hospital, but being turned back because of an...

Wake up John.The wars started.

The enemy bombers droned monotonously toward the City and the Docks to the accompaniment of ack-ack guns...

MY WAR IN THE LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS-3 CLOSE CALLS

Whilst at A.W.A. I volunteered for the R.A.F. and passed the exam for Flying Crew, however the Air Ministry...

A Childs Tale by Jean Fletcher

Mum and Dad slept in a downstairs room with great big shutters on the windows and I slept upstairs in one...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR

My Mum, Dad and two brothers and me had notification to attend Hellesdon Junior School to collect our gas...

THOUGHTS OF BOY IN WAR YEARS ( ANDERSON SHELTER)

This corrugated iron bunker would then have to be placed into the ground at the bottom of the garden to...

Was I jinxed?

I was with a friend, we got on a train at Sutton station and just as we reached Clapham Junction a bomb...

Memories of war time in Coventry

A string of incendiary bombs fell on the factory, unfortunately some landed in the part stores, the...

MY WARTIME EXPERIENCE

On a couple of occasions when the bombing seemed to have subsided I was allowed back to Coventry for a...

Schooldays During the Malta Blitz

I arrived in Malta by boat, with my mother and little brother, in January 1938 and lived in a flat in...

Bomb Dodging In Whitely Bay

So during the Battle of Britain when London was getting bombed quite badly, we were only troubled by...

Bombing and Bussing in the Blitz

Thee nearest we came to being hit was when an attempt was made to destroy the railway line from Southampton...

A young boy's recollection of a war time bombing incident

The bomb landed in the back gardens between two facing rows of terraced houses situated in Furnival Street...