A year after sinking the Barham, U-331 was surprised on the surface by planes from HMS Formidable and...
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The following autobiographical report of what it was like to be a young German boy during WW2 was sent to...
After that there were no more holiday-makers who, until then, had flocked to Sandown via the boats that...
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My sister Win, who with her baby boy lived with us while her husband was in the army, had been blown over...
I had been staying with my aunt at Faringdon for a few days during the summer holidays on 29 August 1942,...
We lived at the time Mum, Dad my elder sister and me in 2 rooms in Packington Street. It seemed prudent at...
The pupils from St. Joseph's tin hut school, the convent further along St. Peter's Park Road,...
For my wartime meals today I had egg, bacon, fatbread, two cups of tea, meat, carrots, cabbage, potatoes,...
In the first week of September 1939, a couple of weeks after my tenth birthday, together with my parents, I...
I also remember the night Bradford was bombed... My best friend Margaret Walker went but I stayed in...
Many a time they lit up the German aircraft coming over to bomb the Airport and the city of Manchester....
On the evacuation away from the bombing of Liverpool while we were waiting for the train to leave the...
There was a walled kitchen garden where Miss Elizabeth grew anything from asparagus and cucumbers in a cold...
I am to go to the office with her at the Chamber of Tradeswhere she works, and when the sirens go off...
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