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Operation Shingle: Chapter 6

The Allied force now facing the German defenders on the Cassino front was truly international; the US on...

Captain Victor Gough

Helfen's arrival at 鈥渢he Block鈥� was a blessing to the British paratroopers, for with his...

Brother-in-Law's Letter from the French Battlefields

We finally landed on French soil about 6am... When we first left England we were living on compo rations,...

Reg's War: One Man and the War

In July 1942 we went by train to Glasgow and boarded an American banana boat at Gourock, we were seven...

The Bridge at Halen (complete version) - an incident in Germany with 11th Armoured Division

The Bridge at Halen - an incident in Germany with 11th Armoured Division. After the 11th Armoured Division...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 21: Bayeux. A minefield. German helmets. A Bailey Bridge. Bottles of Guinness.

133 tailed and served the 7th Armoured Division in those hectic days and Butch, proud co-owner with Ritchie...

Total Chaos in St. Peter's 鈥� Sixty-One Years Ago

The scenes inside and outside St. Peter's in Rome during the passing of Pope John-Paul II and the...

My War Storys from North Africa to Normandy

Then we pushed them right the way back across Libya and then the Germans landed and their tanks were in...

That First Battle

On June 26th 1944 'C' Squadron commanded by Major D.G. Bevan went into action at La Taille North of...

The Story of William Ewins [W.Ewins : Part 2]

It was a joy to run out from our tents into the warm sea naked, a beautiful sandy beach, palm trees all...

Italy Part 2; Salerno and Beyond

It turned out that a German armoured car had come on patrol but had returned again seeing another of our...

Into Battle Behind the Bagpipes

This went on for sometime then as infantry was short of men so a new battalion was formed in 1943 -...

"I Know He Is Alive": POW in Japan

Mum continued with her stoical belief that George was alive and, six months after the second telegram, a...

D-Day Minus One - Frank Barnes

The other five were most unfortunate and landed miles away at a place called Graves that was some 15...

My Wartime Service and Experiences. Part 1

Japanese forces advanced down the whole of Malaya,Our Royal Engineers blew up the causeway which connected...

My Experience in WWII

At one point, when taking refuge in a field hospital from German tanks outside Tunis, I was introduced to...

D-day. Letter home from a hole in the ground

As we got on the beach the driver & I ran like mad to the top, avoiding casualties littering the sand....

RAPC visit to Sicily

We were taken from Valetta to Catania on an Italian destroyer then under the command of the Royal Navy......

Bill Houldgreave's War

Eventually we sailed through the Mediterranean to Port Said then took the train to Tulkaram followed by...

Dunkirk

In that capacity I joined the Army on Ist January 1940 and was thereafter destined to work at the War...

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...

Recollections of a Gunner on the Anzio Beachhead

Sounds, sharp in lower ambient, escort the night's advance; The thud of shells from rumbling guns,...

The 78th Div Goes to Egypt to Re-Train and Re-Form

Following my visit to Rome the rumours of a "big move" came to be founded on fact, and on July l8th...

Memories of Arthur Turner: Part 2: With 7th Armoured Division

In middle of a forest with all its trees, so Royal Engineers came sawed the trees down which then became...

Escape from Dunkirk: With the RAMC

After being bombed and machine-gunned in idleness at Vendeville, we moved down to Avion to take wounded...

Race Relations in Algiers (1943)

Arabs and Algerian French swarmed in the streets and markets... French shoppers - men and woman - sometimes...