Dad came home from work to tell us the state of the city, and our older sister Olive was still not home...
My other memory of Dunkirk concerns my mother's brother, my uncle Jim... About six in the morning Joan...
Well, my father was in the Flying Corps in the First World War, and he was an airframe fitter at Yeovilton...
Quite a few Germans came over after the war and they'd laugh and say 鈥淥h, you Jewish British!...
There were very few vehicles on the roads because private cars were stored during the war - often jacked up...
This incident happened on 28th April, 1944 when nine German 鈥淓鈥 boats broke our defences and...
Rudi Pollak a decorated inventor and electrical consultant with the Austrian Government, took us to explore...
Tom is working at Sywell now in airplanes, oh baby John now has 8 teeth. I am sorry you did not get...
My mother contacted some Belgian officials and as the frontier with France was closed, to stop that exodus...
It was like a yoyo, every time a bomb exploded, the door was dragged open, pulling me with it. The bombing...
From then on the plane, which I am sure was a Wellington, was directed by the pilot to Concorde Park, so...
And Regents Park housed a lot of airmen who also held dances, mainly on Primrose Hill. If a German plane...
My father said that it would be safer if my mother drove the four children up to the Lake District, and...
We had been coming to Jersey for three seasons to help our farmer friend to get his potato and tomato crops...
Mum,, was about 10 and my uncle a little older and were being looked after by relatives for the day whilst...
As I laid in bed at night I would hear the drone of hard working aircraft engines as the bomb-laden...
As a skiing enthusiast I went to Europe every year and had friends who were German and Austrian 鈥...
From working at Sanders button factory Miss Byng was required to go to work at Longbridge on the munitions...
My mum, sister and I shovelled sand and earth over some of the bombs and managed to open the chicken shed...
There was a German prisoner of war camp approximately one mile from where I lived on the outskirts of...
I attended school at Rothesay academy in the Junior School, although I had passed the 11+ exam at home, to...
So George made a protected area in the house in the front room by pulling the piano into the middle of the...
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