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Bombs Away 1940 and D-Day 1944

And there it was, a Heinkel bomber, German markings clearly visible, flying in from the north towards...

Stud Duck Memories of a "Clapper Boy"

The main object of the NFU was to go round the country filming war time Britten and to show the general...

Borland's World War II Part 2

Rothesay as a Military Base Rothesay was a submarine base and had HMS Cyclops supply vessel moored in the...

Rationing Memories

In 1944 Dad took me to a concert at RAF Burtonwood, which was a US bomber group airfield> The concert...

鈥淲ho Dares Wins鈥�: French SAS on D-Day

Sgt Contet was first trained at Largo near the Firth of forth in Scotland by Polish Paratroopers attached...

Wimbledon Common in Wartime: A Childhood Memory

It was a sunny day in September 1940 and we were in West Place the row of old-world cottages on Wimbledon...

battle of the bulge

The Canadian armed forces arrived as first in Antwerp so you can imagine that my grandma was a welcome...

Incident on the Crecchio Front

It was our first tour of duty on the winter front stretching about 11 miles southwestwards from Ortona on...

Re- Polish Warship in Cowes I.O.W.

My father , who incidentally was awarded a D.C.M. in the 1914/18 war. was employed as a prison officer at...

Got Any Gum Chum? Childhood Memories of Greenford and Uxbridge

With the unmitigated cruelty of warring siblings, the Anderson became a place of enforced imprisonment post...

A Child's Memories of the Manchester Blitz by Jack Oldham

We heard this whistling or screeching sound getting ever closer, and I recall my Uncle Percy, a World War...

Berlin. Late 1944-1945. Surviving the Russian Atrocities

The horror of the Russian occupation of their homes by troops deliberately brought in from the depths of...

Escape from Warsaw

A group of us around 50 decided to escape from the Germans and go to Moscow and getting there any way we...

Rescued in German-held Italy

Lieutenant David Eyton-Jones was part of a detachment of the British special Air Service, operating with...

Collision in the Skies

On 26th August 1944, two Flying Fortress Aircraft belonging to the 390th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army...

Agira Canadian WW2 Cemetery.

The Canadian War Cemetery lies in the commune of Agira, province of Enna,5 kilometeres from the town of...

Parachuting into Dagenham

Parachuting into Dagenham...

Cont.3 Friends One Suvivor

Later we were taking some surplus other vehicules from Piacenza to Monza race-track in Milan which had...

Dad's Letter from Okinawa 1945

My dad, Charles Hladky, was on the AOG-36 Ontonagon which was a Mattawee Class Gasoline Tanker. This is an...

An American on V.E. Day

My name is Odell Johnson, I was a member of the 453rd Bomb Group, 733rd Squadron... We formed up early in...

My Uncle Bill the Bomber Pilot: Royal Canadian Air Force

One of six sons and two daughters of a poor prairie doctor in Western Canada Uncle Bill was one of my...

American Servicemen in Northern Ireland

But as the days wore on, being a child I completely forgot the war and was only aware of the shortages and...

Burma

In WW2 I served in the Three Arms of the Realm- RAF, Navy and the Army and due to circumstances was in...

Corporal Hopper's Story

Two days later handed over to 7 platoon 24 hours later Germans attacked again driving 7 platoon off the...

D Day Memories: In Birmingham

For a number of years Birmingham City Centre had been filled with thousands of American troops, the centre...

Caserta Headquarters

I was a code, a cipher officer stationed in Caserta 17 miles north of Naples, working in the Palace of...