Stories categorised in 'Allied and Commonwealth Forces'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
And so I continued the recce right through the Gothic Line, sometimes sleeping in an amiable Italian's...
All adults look large when you are about two and a half feet tall but when the Canadians arrived, I had...
Later a school friend helped him with a job at the Naval Headquarters in Bandoeng, he ended up as a...
On a Sunday night, the family were sitting in doors, listening to our old farmer friend Fred Bennett,...
On another day a friend and I went to look at a German 'Stuka' dive bomber that had been shot down....
At the end of the war troops were returned to their original bases and Eveline had word that Victor would...
In 1943 I was 14 and working as a Volunteer in the YMCA Forces Canteen in the Edinburgh Waverley...
When the Allied forces landed in Normandy, he joined General Eisenhower's staff at Supreme Headquarters...
It was strictly a Court Martial offence for W.A.A.F. personnel to fly and although I had tried my hand at...
Celebrations of the feast-day of Jeanne d'Arc, 8 May, 1943 - Senegalese askaris in front of the...
My brothers and sister and i were travelling to visit our grandparents, Alice and James Birch in Derby......
Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton, England. Despite...
I worked at an army camp, the Elson Depot, just outside Ellesmere making camouflage nets. One Christmas we...
At least four or five of my family joined the Jamaican army and two went into to the RAF. I remember my...
I once met a French officer who introduced himself in a gentlemanly manner and as we chatted he assured me...
James Stewart, his second in command, plus staff sergeant/batman-come-body guard were cycling past our...
It was an exciting time - spotting aircraft, seeing tanks on exercise, and watching the Commandos in our...
I was only a young woman at the time and I had to help Mum to look after children because there was...
During the second world war friends and I aged six, used to wag off school and go up onto the railway...
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