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The Parachute

My maternal grandfather, John Webster was going down to Leith Town Hall to pay his rates... He worked in...

The Bombings of Plymouth

It was lifted up by the blast and lifted on top of the Milehouse garages They would take buses out of the...

Saved By A Policeman On Strood High Street

When I got to the Rochester Bridge I would stop and listen for planes; if clear I would sprint the 200...

A Bus Route of Bombers

It was a bright moonlit night and the German bombers were backwards and forwards bombing London and we...

Coventry Blitz

As the night went on, and we could hear the anti- aircraft guns placed on the edge of the City of...

Bombing Raid and a deaf mother in law

One night there was a bombing raid and my Grandma became very worried about her mother-in-law who lived at...

A Toddlers recollections

He would struggle into his greatcoat and balaclave then his tin hat, and in the mean time my mum would be...

A Fireman's Memory

My father joined the AFS in 1935 and in 1939 when the war broke out, he became a full time fireman.One of...

The People of Portsmouth

It was like this you see, the bombers were passing over the south coast of England on their way to the...

Barrage Balloons at Bay

It's a huge balloon, filled with carbon dioxide gas, that floated in the sky, designed to form a...

In the sh*T

One night in 1943 the "jerries" were bombing Portsmouth,Southhampton,and Eastleigh all on the same...

FOOD SUPPLIES AND FIRE BOMBS

The Army had taken over the Technical College in the Butts: every Monday we collected one hundred tons of...

Hendon Aerodrome

My father was in the Air Raid Precautions and was out every night, and when there had been a bombing he...

A Night at the Pictures

It was December1940, although we were at war it hadn't yet sunk in> I think it was nicknamed the...

Firewatching

It had been discovered that the enemy dropped incendiary bombs on towns and cities,which in themselves were...

Exeter Blitz

As an 8 year old living in Monks Road, Exeter the bombing of Lubeck by the RAF did not mean anything to...

Air Raids in manchester

We, Graham and I, were not frightened at that time, only annoyed because we had been woken up, but very...

My First Memories of the War

During those early war years, when our Anderson shelter wasn't a flooded out, I remember we all trooped...

Father and Son

A Molotov Breadbasket was a bomb which exploded at a pre-arranged height and scattered about 100 incendiary...

Manchester in the early years of the War.

Doris Marland nee Briggs recorded by Pamela Brown I was 17 when the war broke out, living in Unsworth about...

How Now

Night after night to London town You came, and painted each so rich a hue That morning's sun grew pale,...

Irene's story

During the war many bombs were dropped on London and there were sirens every night... I had woken up to the...

Surviving the Vickers Armstrong Air Raid. September 1940

I started work at Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory in Brooklands Road, Weybridge and I was employed in...

U.X.B. By Donald Greaves

During a raid in November 1940, a stick of bombs fell among the houses on a Birmingham Council Estate......

Bombing in Coventry

Land mines were hanging from rooves all over the City, which was destroyed by incendiary bombs and high...

I Wonder What it's like to be Dead?

On Good Friday 1941, the German Bombers came round the outskirts of Coventry dropping incendiaries... I...