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Childhood memories - Part 3: Doodlebugs over Sussex

Being halfway between the coast and London the RAF had a field day pouncing on these rockets and several...

Evacuation John Hawkins Story

Evacuation John Hawkins Story...

Parachute Landing in Tehidy Wood

When a parachute suddenly landed at Three Bargate. I saw a man land in the wood and ran to tell my mother...

Canaries in a Coventry Air Raid

When we entered the lounge the canaries were singing but they were the colour of crow's,...

Dad's Story

He got called up november 39,My mum was pregnate with me.Dad was able to see me then but had to go just...

Birthday and Priorities

I remember the ARP Wardens blowing whistles as they walked around the fields to announce the outbreak of...

Attack on Swansea, 1941

I was the youngest of 5 brothers during the war in Swansea... What we thought was a bomb blast, was in fact...

Seaton Beach

Mother took me to the beach and we were enjoying it when she saw some aeroplanes coming in over the bay......

Gas Masks and POWs

They were brought in each day on a lorry - Germans and Italians. To be honest, the Italians weren't...

Airshow at Speke In 1938

In 1938 my brother and I were very excited when we were taken to an airshow at Speke. This picture shows us...

Memories of evacuation

In 1940 I was evacuated with my sister from Banstead in Surrey to Ramsbury, Wiltshire... In 1944 I was...

Painted Dustbin Lids

In 1939 I was aged 7 years old, and lived in Highams Park near Chingford in Essex. I can remember dustbin...

David Langdon Evacuee

When I was 2 an evacuee from London called David Langdon, stayed in Acacia Road in Bedford.He was a...

Sheffield Blitz

The German's decided to bomb this area as the steelworks produced weapons that were used during the...

Mickey Mask Tantrums

I can remember feeling very anxious about what it all meant, as my Dad had told me lots of stories about...

Anticipation of Evacuation

I was only eight, eight-and-a-half when the war began, so my memories started really with the evacuation,...

Attack on Broadway, Derby

There was only one Bombing Raid on the Rolls-Royce factory, which, of course, produced the Merlin engine...

The Beginning of My War - from London to Folkestone

I was nearly seven when the war started and went to my grandparents home.We thats my mother and myself left...

Childhood Memory

My most vivid experience during the war occured in daytime. I would be standing as a small boy in the back...

Bomb Fall In Garlinge

Alf and Bert would go from Garlinge tothe \Margate Gas Works... Alf and Bert saw the german plane drop...

Evacuated - from London to South Wales

The children in the street gathered round me, they asked me different questions about london....

Normality in adversity: Sitting for a Music Exam in Barry

On the day of the examination, a Messerschmitt aircraft flew over the town to bomb and straff the docks.The...

Convoys on the A50

As a child I attended High Street School in Tunstall... The teacher would stand at the window and watch...

Air raid over Shrewsbury

My Aunt , who lived in Liverpool, was staying with us at the time, asked when would the guns start firing...

Boy Messenger: For the ARP in Kent

When I was about 15 I volunteered as a runner for the ARP. In the middle of one night I was told...

War Time Spirit: In Birmingham

Walking along a road with my Grandmother, we encounted a Prisoner of War.My Grandmother wished him a...