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The Belfast Blitz

The Luftwaffe's navigation was not what anyone expected for instead of hitting the centre of Belfast...

My Childhood in Portsmouth

My father, Sydney George Whitefield, had a coal business in Portsmouth, the family business. One night this...

The Case Of The Disappearing Oven

So the meat and the oven had blown up. Part of the oven door was found on the roof of Sadler's Wells,...

Incendary Bombs

My father Henry Roland Fleming realised that the German Air Force would be dropping Incendary bombs on our...

East End Blitz and D-Day in North Africa

At that time we had bombed the French fleet so the Germans would not get them and the so the French were...

A Memory of the Blitz

I had a twenty one year old sister who was a nurse with the Civil Defence Ambulance and was stationed at...

The Blitz in East London

The lower bed slept my Aunty and all the small children and I slept on the narrow sort of bunk bed over...

My Wartime Experience (Manchester Blitz)

On Monday morning someone had to take the keys back to the Town Hall and the job fell to me. I am...

London Blitz

One memory of the blitz which sticks in my mind was the night of September 7th 1940 when the German planes...

Vase or Vaze!

Joyce Mc Rickus Our VE Day Street party took place when I was 14, we had wired up a gramophone on a...

My First Air Raid: West Bromwich

Although Birmingham was regularly bombed and aircraft droned overhead we were not attacked and soon gave up...

Some Of My Childhood Memories of World War 2

This meant the railway was a target for the German aircraft to bomb during the blitz. One of my most vivid...

Bombed Out!

I was in my late twenties during the war and had already had children, we used to live in Fulham in London...

Coventry 1940

My mother, Eveline Mary Gregory, remembers the events of 1940 in Coventry. I worked at the BTH and...

Childhood Memories of the Greenock Blitz

My earliest childhood memories are of being woken by my mother in the middle of the night, bundled into my...

A Youngster's View of the Blitz in West London

The night skies over this part of Chelsea were always resonating with the sound of German bombers attacking...

The Direct Hit: In Abbey Wood, London

One evening in late April 1941 the air-raid sirens sounded and Sid, Fay and their children made their way...

From Hull Evacuated to Burton-on-Trent

My brother and I were going to be evacuated to Canada to a relation there, but just before we were due to...

The Tea-Round to the Air Raid Shelters

When we got back to St. George's after the tea run, it was often too late for me to get home to...

Do You Remember, Bradford Air-Raid May 1941

I had always assumed the aircraft was a single-seater fighter like the Messerschmitt ME 109, as my Father...

My Very Own Bomb: London during the Blitz

One morning, I unlocked the door leading into the yard and discovered an unexploded incendiary bomb lying...

A Child's Life in London

His ship, HMS Phoebe, had been torpedoed off Cape Noir in French West Africa and repaired in New York. The...

Saving St. Paul's

With the then customary sandwich pack brought from home, I strolled off in the direction of St. Paul's...

Memories of Life in Wartime Stockport by "Peasticks"

In case of an alert the spotter pulled a piece of string and a piece of cardboard flapped up and down on...

Evacuee

Nearly every night during the bombing, we were pulled from our beds to go down to the Anderson Shelter that...

Bruno Dominico de Grussa

In the summer holiday which followed, Bruno and I worked in partnership at the nearby Mason's Farm. On...