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"Waho Mohammed"

Those American and British soldiers who were stationed in many camps across barren Salisbury Plain managed...

White Stars and Stripes

It all seemed a real eye-opener for their brothers were daily flying in large formations of bombers to...

Seaforth Highlander - P.O.W. Diary

June- Leave Meppen for Eastern Germany Berlin, Breslone , Lamsdorf. May 10th 鈥擫eft Leznity get lift...

Requiem for Secretariat

Wedged between two novels, I find the Mahabharata, a poem of India, The longest poem ever written I open...

D-Day Imminent: Meeting American Soldiers in Wiltshire

In a mini blitz on 2nd March my maternal grandmother was killed by an incendiary bomb which bounced out of...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 7

At the point where the South African Engineers subsequently threw over a massive Bailey bridge, and...

Desert Chicken at Anzio

When I had over 60 missions it came time for our squadron to furnish a pilot for the courier service from...

Memories of American Airfields Near Norwich

We did a similar thing at Horsham St Faith's airbase. While my Father was at Tibbenham, James Stewart...

A Canadian's Experience of War

Another part of my life in the war was having fun, because we were very well paid; there were not that many...

Recollections Of 鈥楧 鈥� Day鈥� 6TH June 1944 195 Air landimg field Ambulance RAMC

One of the cyclists had never ridden a bicycle before and on a practice run he steered it into a ditch,...

American Soldiers in Omagh during WW2

A weekly visit to Omagh's streets of a US military band playing the popular tunes of the times was much...

My War Memories: Childhood Memories of Kirriemuir, Angus

These soldiers ware accomadated in various places in Kirriemuir, including Reform Street School, which...

All Tanked Up - part 7

Betty Parker remembers Canadians from Bordon sheltering in Headley too: 鈥淭hey slept in the woods by...

War Diaries (part 4)

13-10-1940 Sunday Around 11.30 a.m., Alan, Bert's son, asked if he and Loline could go up to the Golf...

All Tanked Up

Extracts from a book compiled in 1994 by John Owen Smith from conversations and correspondence with...

Ellis Koder - Memoirs of An Indian Soldier 鈥� 1942-45

During our training for the invasion of Malaya, code-named 鈥淶ipper鈥�, we were told that the...

A Childhood 'Lost' by the Event of WW2 - Lancashire

Over the next couple of years as I began to understand that something was not quite 'right'. We had...

A Guy Called Harvey

We began to look along tablets inset into this massive structure that now filled our entire field of vision...

The Passing of the Americans: In Northern Ireland

We, children, lived on a Refugee Settlement Farm in Northern Ireland, Millisle, County Down; on the coast...

ACCIDENTS

It is over sixty years ago now and it is difficult for me to remember the exact procedure,however with...

RAF AirCrew Reminiscences

I received my posting notice 鈥� report to the RAF AirCrew Receiving Centre in London at 0800 hrs the...

American Veterans Return to Normandy

As we stood in the cemetary a German man who recognised my client's cap badge came up to him and said...

Any Gum Chum: Childhood Memories of Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

The Conkering Hero: Conkers in Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

Any Gum Chum?

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

Dost Going On Leave

As he worked for me I talked to him about this but his attitude was "It was the will of Allah" so...