I was already awake when it happened -- they were bombing the docks. But we were bombed again....
We could see flames through the glass in the front door and as Mother opened the door, we saw a burning...
Going out side into yard to watch plane's dropping bombs getting thick ear for being outside by...
The siren wailing in the night No time for sleep, we must take flight Out in the blackness to the shelter...
My girlfriend and I and another couple sat on a seat in Eastville Park overlooking the pub. Charlie's...
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The air raid started and the incendery bombs were falling through my house, through the furniture and...
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I have a condition called retinal pigmentosa, this means that I was unable to see in the dark as a child,...
The cows in the nearby milking sheds were milked at top speed in case the bomb went off. Mr Hefford a...
I use to amaze my Mother much later with my memory of the air raids when I was about 18 months and...
One evening we had a spate of incendiary bombs in the area... By that time flames were showing from the...
It was on Sunday, January 10th, 1943, that I went on duty at the Royal Hotel, Teignmouth... I was due to...
On that evening I had to take a message to the Civil Defence Warden at the Broardmarsh Warden Post... Later...
Saturday 24 August 1940 will stay in the memory of any one my age — especially at 11.15 that morning...
His duties wore to extinguish any incendiary bombs using a stirrup pump, buckets of sand and a long-handled...
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Planes were dive-bombing, and suddenly, a huge blast came through the hall from the back door. I never saw...
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