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15 October 2014
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British Soldier Shot in Burma and Rescued by GI's.

Reg's regiment were booked to join the 8th Army in the desert but by the time they arrived Monty had...

406 Squadron and RAF Manston

On talking to a friend in Mea House Choir in Newcastle upon Tyne found that she was in Ireland, WAAF...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 1

No doubt there are many others who can tell quite a different story and who experienced very different...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 49

For a few hours we were in a 'No man's Land'situation, until eventually the forces of Russian...

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A Fleeting Moment in History: Childhood Memories of Princetown, Devon

As a young boy I was fortunate enough to grow up on Dartmoor, I say fortunate because this was at the...

A Story of Air Training

During 1944, whilst on the seafront above the Children's Playground, I witnessed the wing to wing...

The Night of the Blitz: In Manchester

I remember walking four miles into Manchester City where I worked, through glass, rubble, water, etc. With...

From Capture in Poland to life in Dunstable as a GPicon for Story with photo

On September 17th 1939, he escaped from the invading Soviet Army after Poland had been invaded by Germany...

A Child in Walton on the Hill

David Hall was born in 1934 and lived at Walton on the Hill. The one bomb we had a Walton on the...

Kasserine Pass

Up to that time we had been fighting with Valentine and Crusader tanks which were no match against the...

D-Day the Build Up Through the Eyes of a 14 Year Old Boy: In Weymouth and Portland

Weymouth and Portland were the main ports of embarkation for landing on the beach known as Omaha... The...

The Submarine Le Rubis

French submarines were instructed to make their way to British harbours, in particular to the submarine...

Cicho-Ciemni - The Men Who Dropped Silently in the Darkicon for Story with photo

In 1942 I became the commander of the 2nd Platoon, 2nd Company Parachute Training School at Szachrizjabz,...

Italian Prisoners and the American Army

At some point a prisoner of war camp was established there for Italian prisoners, who were sent out to work...

American "K" Ration Packsicon for Story with photo

The ''Kpaks were really for the Infantry, but we used to like them as we didn't always have the...

Memories of Coggeshall as a Schoolboy

When the USAF came to Earls Colne we saw a khaki invasion of Coggeshall of over 3000 airmen — more...

"Over There!"

I could tell you endless tales of that time, some funny, some sad, but the story for you is about Creamed...

US Army in Ulster

The four US Graves Registration Service personnel who were based in Belfast moved on to Europe and cared...

Bombers at Buckenham

A rather different incident was when a badly damaged Lancaster made a forced landing having had the...

U.S. Navy SeaBees 64th Construction Battalion

The 64th SeaBee Battalion arrived in the Phillipine's a total wreck and things weren't about to get...

Forgotton Soldiers: Soldiers from Pakistan

This is just a story of a single girl, we have places in Pakistan where hundereds of homes have a similiar...

Journey to Freedom

A. Sobotowski was fighting with the Polish Army at the Battle of Warsaw. when it became apparent that the...

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Tasmania is an island south of the mainland of Australia and as we were to be trained in Victoria at a...

American Airman with Deep English Roots Then and Now

The preparation for war left no time for looking for English cousins except for two days with a related...

Santa Arrives by Plane

My visits to the Air Force had been characterized by a very friendly attitude shown to an army guest by...

A Father Remembered - An American Farm Boy Turned Soldier in Europe

He was a simple farm boy from Eastern Tennessee in the Applachian Mountains when he went into the United...

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