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Action On The Adriatic Coast by Romuald E. Lipinski Part I

The only source of manpower were deserters from German army. Being a reconnaissance regiment of the 3-rd...

One Man's War

We continued up the Desert in various stages until we took Tripoli and eventually Tunis where we joined up...

The Beginning Of The End

August 1945’ the war was going badly for Japan bringing bitter uncertainty and fear for its people, a...

My Adventures in WW2 - Part 1

Then they turned round and went right back across the Atlantic again till ultimately we finished up at...

War Stories of an Acting Unpaid Lance Corporal

Shortly after our return from France to Italy it was decided to invade Greece, and in October ‘44 we...

Assault on Merville Battery

army service in England and Italy Part 1

Compared to the Home Guard the University OTC, although staffed by regular army NCOs and having a few...

"MY WAR WITH THE FORGOTTEN ARMY" (Part 1)

As we were boarded the Dakota one of the lads asked if we were being issued with parachutes; the Sgt...

Ringway, Paratrooper Training

To get back training, after learning how to roll, the next lesson was how to roll on landing, by the way,...

ATS Battery 639, 580

We were given a choice of working in a cookhouse or volunteering to join an Ack Ack battery. For some...

saga of a shopkeeper

Wilfred Ralph Ketland, Gunner in the Royal Artillery, partisan fighter in Poland and Red Army soldier on...

My War and Beyond: Liberation in Europe

I was out in a boat with soldiers and about 6 ATS to get to Ostend, to catch up with rear 21st...

A NIGHT OF TERROR

I can remember standing on the walkway with a Royal Artillery Lieutenant called Williams who subsequently...

Escape from Rangoon Jail (part 2)

During this episode a long canoe came into view with several villagers on it calling across in Burmese not...

Reluctant khaki clad civy commanded by YITS 1940-1946

Next morning sailing out of the Mersey into the Irish Sea we could see that we were one of ten liners,...

Working on the Thailand railway - Part One

We were three days off Cape Town and the Japs bombed Pearl Harbour so instead of us going to the Middle...

Anthony Lister-Tales of a POW at Oflag 7B, Eichstadt.

Not long after this event one of the German NCOs went to see Jack Higgin privately and said “I...

Tommy Fryer POW

Leaving Odessa we marched down to the docks and interrogated by the Russians to make sure only Englishmen...

Arnhem followed by Christmas 1944

The snow was falling thick and fast in the weeks prior to Christmas, and the pretty little German town of...

Army: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - 1st Battalion

On 28 May the 1st Battalion was involved in an attempt to reduce the bridgehead the Germans had secured...

Base Workshop - Basrah

British, American, Indian,Polish and Russian, men at office desks, in long cabins, at the wheels of river...

Hardwick Hall, to be trained as a parachutist

Hardwick Hall, being situated on a slope in a large parkland area leant itself towards toughening training,...

BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: Arrival in India

Ten RAF wireless and electrical personnel, including me, were given a posting to 22 ASC. It was stationed...

WW II -From West to East -1943-1946

For some reason, he and I became very friendly and perhaps, because of that, I was a bit privileged, for at...

From One Extreme to the Other - A prisoner in Italy, Taking Prisoners in Germany

As Libya at that time belonged to Italy we didn't become German POWs, we became Italian POWs. The...

FROM GLASGOW TO GAMBIA: MEMORIES OF A SIGNAL CORPSMAN