We had a rough mongrel dog — Jinks — who provided a useful service throughout the Blitz... We...
After the war Plaister Down was made into a camp and housed territorials for several years afterwards....
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We in the Canichers had guns, big guns which were situated in the Blue Mountains at the Cotils behind us,...
On Good Friday morning at 2am in April 1941 a bomb dropped on our Village School. The village is North...
I was 14 and we were living in Bitton Street in Teignmouth, Devon and we got bombed at night and lost the...
Food parcels were the prizes and I won first prize, but there was also one orange. I had the orange....
My brother-in-law came home from Dunkirk, shell-shocked... During the war I was a joiner and made...
What I can remember about the war is 3 unexploded bombs in front of the home, to the side of a college......
My Childhood Memories of the War. I remember asking my mother about the planes we could hear overhead, and...
I remember when the atomic bomb was dropped....
I have never forgotten it and for some reason I am convinsed it was taught to me by an Americain Air Force...
I had very little communication with home in this time that I remember but I returned home and back to...
The only way to go the toilet when you were in an air raid shelter would be to use a bucket separated...
The soldiers used to come to Harlow Street, off Park Road, and diffuse time bombs. The school I went to,...
On VE-day I was able to look down on the celebrations taking place in Saturday Market from the bay window...
I was sent on an errand by my mum, pushing my little sister in her pushchair in Victoria Road. I knew an...
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Ireland was a free state so they didn't have anything to do with the War as such, but seven miles...
In 1944 we heard that the Americans were at the Station ready for D-Day. They shaved using their helmits as...
His dad's name was Elliott Martin and we were all from the Aintree area of Liverpool... I'll get...
My sister was born in 1938 so all of her early years were spent with just our mother at home. She has...
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