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Johnny Stinger's Story

He married my Mum in 1944 at St. Mark's Church Preston, I have an older brother called Eddie after my...

My Father's "Brown Babies"

Against his will he had to leave his "babies" in England after World War II... I first heard the...

Bury Boys' War

In June 1943, the 94th USAAF bomb groups B17 Flying Fortresses arrived at Rougham Airfield... Eight and...

All Tanked Up - part 9

In early 1943, Pat Lewis remembers sharing the few Ram tanks the Sherbrookes had between their four...

The Russian POW

All Tanked Up - part 10

There were four Canadian camps locally each named after one of the Canadian Great Lakes: Huron and Ontario...

The Englishman

The destroyer I joined was made up of Anglo, Scots and French Canadians, also a couple of Americans, who...

Nazis on the Playing Field

So I found myself posted to the 1st Battalion of King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, which together with...

All Tanked Up - part 5

Those on Ludshott Common tended to go to Grayshott and Haslemere – Pat Lewis, who was in Nissen huts...

Memories of a Very Brave French Resistance Fighter

France at this time was being over run by the German army and both French and British forces were trying...

My DAD's Story

His service record shows that during WW2 he was stationed at many different Air Force Bases throughout the...

Diary of A Young Sailor

He grew up on Farragut Road in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Baptist housewife, Edna Pickarvey, and an...

The Russians Were Different

I suspect that by 1945 the western Allies had already made the political decision to grab as much German...

All Tanked Up - part 12

They may or may not have buried motorbikes in Erie Camp; from recent stories in the local press, they do...

HK Dimoline and the Battle of Cassino

Tuker, also a strong character — advocated by-passing Monte Cassino around the adjacent mountains and...

A Polish Battlefield

We have just received battle orders - before dawn tomorrow we will move to close the gap at Chambois, the...

The Winter Of 1944 - 1945: Childhood Memories of Amsterdam

Field kitchen May 9th or 10th, I do not exactly remember, the food of the soup kitchen was completely...

All Tanked Up - part 3

Church Gate Stores in the High Street was used as a squadron orderly building, and Canadian troops there...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 8 and Final

We now became part of the Army of Occupation in Carinthia, billeted in the villages of Fack, Egg and my...

Jan Derych. Survivor's Story

I could hear the German national anthem.Deutchland Uber Alles being sung by the U-boat sailors standing to...

Wartime Power Supply in Northamptonshire

We had two that I remember; dad reckoned that under the stairs was the safest place in the house, so the...

The Outbreak of War: From the Point of View of a Scots Guard

I was in Hyde Park on the Saturday afternoon and watched the first German aircraft fly over to bomb the...

D-Day Preparations by Canadian Army

The Bailey Bridging unit of the Royal Canadian Engineers would be positioned at a point close to the River...

Repatriating Allied Prisoners of War in France 1945 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

There were also a fair number of Indian prisoners passing through this camp and being short-staffed, I...

From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino PART 2

After heavy fighting on the 17th of May 1944 Polish soldiers conquered German forces and raised the Polish...

All Tanked Up - part 11

The immediate effect of this, as far as the village was concerned, was to bring the Garrys back for their...