Stories categorised in 'The Blitz'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
The bombing of London started on Saturday September 7th when 967 German and Italian fighters and bombers...
Just past the 鈥淣ick Wood鈥 stood a small cottage next to the church in which Mary Armstrong, a...
My other four serving brothers were George, Royal Artillery, Jack, Royal Artillery, Joe, Army Fire Service...
I had heard about Germans from my Teachers at my Council school in Coundon Road, when we children were...
I can clearly recall Aunty Mary and grandma working together on washing-day, but maybe that memory is so...
Although my back was almost broken I jumped out of the ambulance and after a quick glance at broken windows...
By September 1938 a meeting in Munich, organised by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, along with...
Coventry Cathedral was bombed and burnt to the ground. The train could not get into Coventry because the...
A bowl of water and a blanket were kept in there, so we could hang a wet blanket over the door in...
Because of the heavy bombing of London, Coventry etc. we were considered a high risk area and if a major...
The place was crowded and many of the people who were in poor physical and mental condition had come from...
But the war came closer to the Horsham firemen's home ground when a bomb landed on the house of the...
It was known as the being the largest shipbuilding town in the world at that time, for it had seven...
In the late afternoon we of the Auxiliary Fire Service, stationed at the London Fire Brigade Station at the...
We had open coal fires in those days and in the winter evenings we would sit around the hearth and Mum...
We had to use the shelter hurriedly on several occasions when they bombed the docks, using bright parachute...
Sal, Vin and Richard had no mum... Granddad, Vin, Sal, George, Terry and I, and mum all went to the house....
This resulted in Plymouth being a big target for German bombers, and a place where a young boy like me...
There was a rumour that British bombs captured by the Germans in the retreat from the continent were being...
Peckham is only a few seconds flying time from the East End of London, so any pilot who was a split second...
Could Ted suggest some way in which they could provide a lot of hot water?... And could he use his...
Like the time when we had incendiary bombs in the front and back gardens, I upended a heavy pot with a...
His materials were also crucial to the success of the bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis and used by...
Wedding day Anyhow, back to November 1941, it was a nice day on Saturday the 29th, and the wedding was...
Now the barrage balloons, like great silver elephants on wire cables, appeared all over London, ready to...
They used the Langsett, Ewden, Bradfield and Derwent Reservoirs for practice runs and Guy Gibson who led...
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