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A Very Close Call

We were just over halfway down the steps when it happened; a bomb was heading our way; the whistling, which...

Wartime Public Air Raid Shelters

In the late thirties I transferred from Junior School to the secondary stream - Crofton Park Central School...

An Evening and Night During the Plymouth Blitz

We travelled by train from Penzance to Plymouth North Road Station and arrived at midday, and then spent...

Memory Lane by Kathleen Daisy Berry (Nee Potter)

One night a bomb came down on the Laundry itself killing two firemen who were on duty, these two men were...

St Lukes Church

The house was uninhabitable but we were lucky not to have been hurt by the large piece of shrapnel which...

WW2 MEMORIES - UXB

During the Blitz in 1940 the Germans used different types of bombs including high explosive land mines...

First Bombs to fall on Epsom

When the Luftwaffe campaign to destroy the Royal Air Force fighter defence air bases was defeated, the...

My experiences as a nine year old from 1939 to 1945

What did not help was my Dad was badly wounded in the First World War, and used to stand outside because he...

The day the balloon came down

So my mother gathered together the case she kept with birth certificates and other documents and blankets,...

WAR TIME MEMORIES

My story begins just before the out break of war, living in Stamshaw seeing airships drift over head which...

mission Impossible

He was not at all the Dad's Army figure of fun persona , Captain Mainwaring. there were five or six...

When War Was Declared

I then went to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in Glasgow to gain my Registered Sick...

London Blitz 1940

Members of the staff were engaged in trying to put out the fires and George found himself at the top of the...

Looking into hell

Standing on that flat roof was like looking into hell - Birmingham only 4 miles away and bombs exploding,...

The Danger Zone

One night my mate Godfrey and I decided we wanted to see a Pat O'Brian picture, it was showing at the...

End of WW2 Memories

I can still remember the night when a V1 'Doodlebug' went over Lincoln on Christmas Eve in 1944......

Allied bombing of Germany

Blitz 1940-1941 (Bombed out)

After a while, a bomb landed next door but one, and the air raid warden fetched us out of the shelter and...

My most embarrassing moment!

I was in the ambulance section of the A.R.P. and later in the W.R.N.S. My brother was a fighter pilot in...

The Shelter

Every evening around seven o'clock the siren would go and we would quickly put on as much warm clothing...

A Hull Schoolboy’s Memories during WW2

One sunny summer evening at approximately 6pm my friends and I heard the sound of a German bomber, we...

Two Memories of the War-time Blitzes on

Being me, I got on my bike in the early hours of the following morning and peddled down Beverley Road until...

Tragedy at Messines Park By Mark watson

With the exception of Messines Park Londonderry escaped the war with out any real bad damage.In fact for...

Me and My Parrot Polly

We had an Anderson shelter in the garden of our house in Richmond Road in Cardiff... For his birthday, my...

Bus Stop Blitz

I left school and started work at the age of 16 in the Telephone Managers’ Office in Union Street,...

Kent story

But when we heard the siren and saw the planes coming back, we knew that the risk of bombs was now higher...