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THE BOMBER

She was able to see the pilot in the plane,his goggles and his helmet because the plane was flying so...

Growing up in Bristol.

I don't believe that it was very effective because not long afterwards a squadron of German planes...

My job during the air raids

I could hear bricks and debris falling on our shelter top, windows crashing and guns banging. I was very...

War

Dad became a 'Street Warden'. Patroling certain streets during raids and reporting any bombing or...

The Bombing of Penwith Rd

I remember visiting the site of that bomb blast a few years ago and recollecting the irony, that it is now...

Hole in the Street

In due course around 1966 the families living in "the pre-fabs" were moved out, the Glagow...

Shire Hall-Nottingham Raid

We were known as the the Shire Hall Fire Brigade. With all the destruction around I think we at the Shire...

Walking on Glass: The Clydebank Blitz

The next day when Mother and I left to get the tram home to Dennistoun, walking up Byres Road was like...

Going Home during the Sheffield Blitz

By Kathleen Ainley One Thursday night, I had gone with my friends to the Sheffield Empire Theatre to see...

V2 rocket falling in Biscot Road

My Mother, Dorothy Bottrill of 97, Alder Crescent, Luton, recalled her memories of the V2 rocket falling in...

My First Primrose and Snowdrop-Childhood Memories

A bomb dropped in Portland Road in London, and my mother was there in the house with my young brother...

A Night in Greenwich - May 10th 1941

I was working in Greenwich at the time as a Methodist Deaconess with the Rev George Lawton who was the...

A Survivor's Account of a Near Miss

We were all standing around the table with our cups raised to our lips when the bomb dropped just across...

10 Year Olds Tale

We lived in Allesley Old Rd at the outbreak of the war, whch is behind Prince of Wales Rd... When the...

NIBBY THE WAR VETERAN

I was bombed out of 63 Eve Road, West Ham, in the big raid on the Docks in the East End of...

Belville St Greenock

We were quite lucky as my oldest brother, who was on night shift on the railway, stayed in Port Glasgow so...

Pearl's War Memories

We spent the first night down the pub cellar - where my parents were managers for a Birmingham brewery... I...

Days Gone By - the Sheffield Blitz

The Shell and the Bomb

When you are in an anderson shelter you can tell the difference between a shell and a bomb... My brother...

Blitz boy

At the age of four I had been evacuated with my mother and brother, first to Folkestone, Kent which was...

The Two Christmas Year

We stayed until Christmas, receiving presents from uncles and aunts, then two days after Christmas our...

Wartime Childhood

Our house was only a short distance away and many a night we were carried half asleep down into the air...

Wartime memory

When war broke out my mother and mrs Crocket arranged for us to have our bath at her house and if the...

"They forgot to tell me that war had been declared"

I used to colour my legs with gravy salt due to the stocking shortage and one night as I stood at the...

The Day That War Was Declared

I stayed there until the first bomb that fell locally, which was some considerable time after that, and we...

Coventry Centre Wiped Out

I was married in Coventry in 1938 and then the war started and we could hear them all coming to Birmingham...