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Blackout, American Forces, and the 'Pig-bin'

We sometimes went down our neighbours air raid shelter, which smelt funny My mum kept the tobbacco part of...

Gliderman U.S. 82nd Airborne

On June 6th I rode a English Glider over France and landed near Ste Mere Eglise,we crashed into a tree on...

Allied Co-Operation

One such unit was a remnant of the Czech Army embodying a large number of Jews temporarily housed at Church...

To Return A Favor

Once lockdown came, John, and the GI's in particular David Masters an officer, thought they would never...

Things Could Only Get Better: War in Monkgate, York

As a young woman of eighteen she lived in Monkgate, York with her family and came close to losing her life...

Life in the Royal Navy

My Grandfather and Father both served in the Royal Navy - in fact I was named Edgar after HMS Edgar the...

One Little Aussie at War

In 1943 as a qualified pilot, I landed in Scotland, posted to Brighton, farmed out to Peterborough, to do...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 5)

To commemorate their bravery, they were given the Freedom of Cambridge for the rest of their lives in a...

Taiwanese Resistance Against the Japanese

The Japanese military had authority over Taiwan for around 50 years... During this the Japanese military...

Yanks: CHildhood Memories of Northern Ireland

I would have been four or five years old at the time and my brother 18 months younger. White men in...

A Soldiers Story: 3rd Canadian Division on D-Day

After a relatively quiet period, Sydney was in Northern France, when the storm broke and the German...

Life in the Polish Army

In April 1943 we were transferred to the Polish Army in Scotland through South Africa, arriving in Scotland...

Americans in High Street St Austell

In 1944 I was back living on a small-holding at a village called High Street, three miles from St Austell...

Chesil Beach Vehicle Park

As D Day approached Weymouth was filled with American Troops and a large area alongside the road between...

A Near Thing

In 1943 I was seconded to the South African Army.We were stationed at the recently acquired Breda Machine...

Dakar West Africa. The Free French Landing at Vichy, French Occupied Dakar -an Invasion by the Free French with British Support

The Free French Landing at Vichy, French Occupied Dakar -an Invasion by the Free French with British...

Experiences in Cape Town During World War II

However, it was romantically exciting, when the troop ship docked in Cape Town to fill up with fresh...

Yankie Surprise: Hitching a Lift in Dungannon

My father-in-law John McKee worked in the linen industry during the war and was based at Moygashel outside...

How I Captured 12 Germans: Invasion of Southern France

After the invasion of Normandy, USS Bayfield went to Africa, Loaded soldiers there ....

A Wartime Experience

I was Adjutant at the Royal Military Police Depot just outside Aldershot... I remember being deputed once...

Wartime Warrenpoint

Boats travelled between Warrenpoint and Omeath which is on the other side of Carlingford Lough and in the...

WW2 Gomer Pyle in British Officer Mess

My father, Joe Fisher, served with US Army near Lichfield, part of his duty was to train Home Guard and...

My Uncle Russell

My father spent time mostly as a gunner in North Africa, Italy, Corsica, and France, while his brother was...

A Welcome from the Belfast 'Kids'

Our grown-ups were not so gracious, many said they were "Over here, over paid and over sexed" We...

The Yanks Come to Town by Bernard MC Cormack

The Yanks Come to Town by Bernard MC Cormack...

"Have you got any Gum Chum...?" Childhood Memories of Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent

"Have you got any Gum Chum...?" Childhood Memories of Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent. They seemed to have...