My wife and I had arranged to meet Elisabeth Weiss who worked in the records office in Vienna... We tried...
As a six year old in 1939 and living in Manchester my dad told me I had to do my bit so...
As space was so short, we also used part of the Bishops Palace which we also shared with other evacuated...
During 1941 and 1942 my brother Tony and I lived with our grandparents in lascelles Avenue, Withernsea,...
Being only eight years old I had been packed off upstairs to bed. From my bedroom window I was able to...
No petrol was available for civilians use, so I started off in the dinghy, with Amber the cocker spaniel,...
1: In the first year of the war, my grandmother took me to an air raid shelter made of a Nissen Hut,...
He was from Prague stationed at Church Broughton with the Wellington Bombers... Eventually he was moved...
How I got there I don't know, but there were but there were crowds of children and crying mothers...
The Blake Hall in Bridgewater was the main hall for dancing and I can recall the talk that went on of...
The only bomb I can recall dropping nearby was aimed at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Blythe Bridge....
My father, who during the war was a an officer in the RAF came from the north Oxfordshire village of...
The local Music Club arranged a Soloman concert at Eccles Town Hall — it was crammed with the Chief...
On receiving whatever information, on our bikes we would get and race like mad to get to the place first,...
On 3 October 1944 the full Glen Miller Band of the AEF played their last concert at an American base in...
We had a German prisoner of war camp in Devices I can remember columns of them being marched up the street...
On September 1st 1939 my school, Camden School For Girl's decided that we should leave London... We...
I was sixteen when war broke out and I was still at Burnley High School and I had two more years to...
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I remember on two occasions my brother, mother and i had to rush under the table and my mother rushed out...
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