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Around 1977 my brother and I were digging around in our Nan's old air-raid shelter in Bradstow Way...
However, on the Sunday afternoon, as we were walking by the canal, we saw a German plane exchange fire with...
One night a bomb was dropped on a warehouse across from our house, it was a Taylor's Depository and had...
The family didn't need to rely on the siren to know when a bombing raid was imminent - the family pet...
One most notable memory during the war was late one summers evening when I was playing in the street and...
The nearest public shelter was less than 2 minutes walk away opposite the local Fire Station, almost next...
My Mother, Dad and my sister went a day or two after to look at the big crater where all the houses...
Born in Coventry on 16 Aug 1935 and started school 1939-40 at St. Mary's on Hood St. and Raglan St. The...
We moved to Surrey, near Windsor, believing it would be safer & quieter... Now I believe it must have...
When this happened a sixteen-year-old girl had to hold a baby above water in a flooded cellar for a very...
After the all clear sounded, we went on to the cinema....
During the war years I was't conscripted, as I worked in offices of Courtolds making silk parachutes....
When a land mine landed on Westwood Estate, we fell in a heap on top of each other on the floor from...
My father was a special police officer and when the bombs came down on Cardiff around the ammunitions...
Beake Avenue, Radford, had an anti-aircraft gun and I saw it shoot down a German plane, which crash landed...
Bexhill Hospital Bombed...
I remember my grandmother recounting the story of how she once stood in the road watching a spitfire chase...
My Granny was working in the civic centre in Southampton. Lucky for my granny and her friend....
My grandfather, Frank, was an engine-driver during WW2, working on the railyards around the Cammell Laird...
The next day a huge crater was found in the golf course next door, where an un-exploded bomb was found and...
That dreadful day, when war was declared, My heart missed a beat, and feared the worst, The sound of the...
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