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I Remember

We had many crash landings on the runways and far too often the crews did not come back.When we went off...

Lord Haw Haw got me into bother

Haw-haw mentioned on one occasion the 鈥淕olden Teapot鈥. The 鈥淕olden Teapot鈥 was a...

Norway

My husband Herbert Muggleton joined the army in 1928 and served seven years in India and Cyprus... Herbert...

Childhood memories ww2

My Dad, David Owens was born in 14th December 1908, he was conscripted into the Army on his 3!st birthday...

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A Family's War

He used to go to Iceland, Norway etc, often flying across the Atlantic three times a week... We used the...

A Guernsey evacuee in Rochdale reunited with relatives from London

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. We went up to Rochdale,...

When Smog Was a Frequent occurrence

Until the clean Air act came in after the war, we frequently had dreadful smog caused by smoke from the...

Young David from Plymouth.

Plymouth was very badly bombed and I used to stand at the hill near my home and look down on the town...

Listening for Lancaster Bombers

I used to lay in bed at night and listen to the Lancaster bombers. We used to listen to Lord Haw-Haw on...

Yeovil and the 'Yanks'

My father Ron Amatt, lived in London, but moved to Somerset with his Mum and Brother Sid and Sister Jean,...

"Not all Black and White"

My mother's name was Karoline Bertha Evans, but she was born Koch and she came to England with her...

Irish Mums War work

That left my mum, 17 陆 year old brother, my sister and myself and 3 陆 year old brother in...

War Memories 1939-1945

During his captivity, Mac was corresponding with his wife Muriel, when his letters began to become very...

My Life Through World War II: Part 2

My father, George Coulson, served in the Medical Corps on the Island of Malta throughout the time of the...

Listening to the Radio during the German Occupation

Evelyn Bryce There was a stable, there was a cider press in it, a big cider press, and he would put it...

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Marsh's parents, John and Mary-Anne Pritchard took in evacuees during the war. Worse than hell at times...

Several Memories

One day a Fairy Battle Bomber pulling the target across the water for the spitfire planes to practice on...

Memories

Things here were not a lot different here as Runcorn was in direct flight path that the German bombers used...

War Bride

At the end of the war, Ron was repatriated by the RAAF and Ishbel officially became a war bride... Ishbel...

LISTENING FOR LANCASTER BOMBERS

He was a tank driver in the 8th Army Royal Armoured Corps. We used to listen to Lord Haw-Haw on the radio...

School Teacher

I was sent to Castle Donington and there was a school bus from Kegworth to Castle Donington but the head...

The Bicycle essential during the German Occupation of Guernsey

Yes, but we had to go different places, because as the food ran out in Town, I had to go down St...

The day the dancing died

My second brother 鈥 tall, handsome, with the bluest of blue eyes which were always dancing with...

Mum was a Real War Hero

That left my Mum, my seventeen year old brother Ted, my thirteen year old sister Mary, myself and my three...

Facing V2s Rather Than Endure Evacuation

I was expecting our first baby when my husband was called up into the Army, so I went home to Mum and...

bert whiffen

Bert and Jessie were married for 52 years, the year of their marriage also being 1952. Sadly, Jessie passed...

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