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The Daimler Raid

My mother, Dorothy Payne, and my father Jack Payne, were both born in 1921, both attended Wheatey Street...

NEAR MISSES

A bomb had fallen into the next door garden raining rocks, soil and pebbles down on us. Enemy planes,...

MY WAR

During my time in the W.V.S.,I met many American soldiers,mostly Police.There were 4 policewomen in...

Reminiscences - from School Books to Service Life

Additional air defences were created: large static water tanks were placed in the streets to help...

East End London Wartime Recollections

He was stationed at North Weald in the RAF when the airfield was bombed by German fighter planes during the...

Sounds and Smells of war at age of ten

Boiled Milk On a rare occasion when a raid occurred in daylight and therefore during school hours, pupils...

A Close Shave

As there was nowhere to sit or rest, we decided that if my elder brother, Osmond and my aunt stayed in the...

Uncle Horace's Revenge On The Luftwaffe

One landed on the side of the railway track, the next one went through the front door of their bungalow and...

The Wickham Street Incident

It turned out that they were parachute mines destined to finish up in the river which must have blown off...

Schoolboys during the Belfast Blitz

And they bombed the whole heart out of Belfast at that time... They thought, possibly, they had spotted the...

The Blitz in Bristol

One of the main targets for the bombers were airfields and Aircraft manufacturing plants of which Bristol...

Walking around the house with no lights on

They used to come over across from Dover, over here to London and if they couldn't get through to...

Play,Death and Theft in WW2

I was born on 17-5-44 in Hitchen,Herts but was brought up in the post-war bombed sites in Stepney.My...

"RED SKY AT NIGHT"

I can remember tomato plants by the path being silhouetted against the red sky from fires burning in...

The Early War Years

On September 3rd, 1939 I was a nine-and-a-half year old schoolboy living in London and well remember Mr....

Guns, Girls, Clocks, Bombs & Floorboards

Hull did get bombed very badly mainly because it was a large port, it was also on the flight path to...

Hereford Messenger Service

I volunteered and was allocated to the C.D. Headquarters which was in the old prison cells underneath the...

Blitz on Coventry

Suddenly, a flare lit up the sky overhead, and then there was another, and another, and another, until the...

Air Raids in Strood

I nearly always woke up when the siren went so I would be waiting for Dad, but my brother hardly ever woke...

Recollections of My Early Years - Part 3 Bombs over Fulwell

The German Air Force bombed Fulwell on a number of occasions....

A nIght out at the Theatre

Mother didn't want to go as the night before she had listened to William Joyce who broadcast propaganda...

Clock Back (an excerpt from)

All over Sheffield buildings were burning and bomb craters made many roads impassable, the Moor and Bramall...

An A.R.P Warden in Stoke Newington

I went out every time the sirens sounded as I was enlisted in the A.R.P on night-time duty in my street...

Working for the AFS in Devon

The Divisional Officer, the D/O, sent some of us girls out with the D/Rs, on the back of their motorbikes,...

Alert

We decided to avoid taking the most direct route through town and instead to go down Wyle Cop and get onto...

THE NIGHT THE GERMANS BOMBED BANGOR

The nearest bomb of the stick, which the Germans had off-loaded on Bangor, had done the best...