During one raid one night, I took shelter with my mum and brother under Silvertown Bridge. Councilmen came...
My daughter saw the evacuees arrive at the station, she was about 10 years old... I used to make clothes...
Their house looked over Sheffield and we watched the whole of the bombing. I can remember swimming in a...
As a child during the war I lived with my Grandparents at Kings Dyke,we kept two pigs one for home use, one...
The unusual sounds it made were brought back to me when I saw the film Operation Crossbow.I remeber the...
Either I didn't listen too well, or the explanations were too vague, but to my horror and total...
As D Day approached Weymouth was filled with American Troops and a large area alongside the road between...
It was during the August school holidays in the summer of 1940,it seemed to be quite good weather from...
Occasionally I accompanyed my father to spot the German bombers overhead on their way to bomb Liverpool. I...
One day we were all taken to have our gas masks fitted and tested but I had no idea at the time...
I was born in April 1940 and my mother, father and grandparents lived in a 2-up/2-down cottage on Jane...
In September 1940 the bus arrived in our village of Upper Caldicote in Bedfordshire with evactuees from the...
She had found Billy Gibbs making a rapid exit through the open window with a large piece of liver hanging...
We went to a small village in South Wales and it was quite difficult to mix with other people in the...
My nan at Chelmsford used to grow a lot of vegetables and fruit and also kept rabbits to eatMy grandad at...
In Feb 1943 a lone plane offloaded its bombs on to Broad Street in Reading, destroying Grassteads Store,...
I meet Jim again three months after that and found out that all his family was killed in the bombed air...
We had a ggod nosh up of jacket potatoes, mams rice pudding and some cocoa... My brother was in the Royal...
They usually happened as we all were sitting to our evening meal-the main meal of the day-and in many cases...
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