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15 October 2014

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Stories contributed by helengena

Aircraft maintenance on the move
Barrage balloons and polishing Spitfires
End of war wedding for aircraft fitters
Fleeting encounter with German plane
Bomb in the garden
Fired at by a German fighter plane
Schooldays in Splott
Afraid to take her clothes off.
Happy go lucky Americans in Abergavenny
Dodging bombs on 16th birthday
Cocoa and rum after Ack-ack
Christmas Day with the Lancaster
Good and bad memories from 30 bombing missions
Memories of Cardiff bombing raids
Kowloon prisoners
missed school, shrapnel and american tastes
Eddie Gurmin's story part 1: From Tredegar to Tregino
Eddie Gurmin's story part 2: Missing over Germany
Eddie Gurmin part 3: Prisoner of War
Unofficial opening of Cardiff Airport - 1942
A historical table
Two Morse codes for special wireless operator
Anti aircraft guns and sticky bombs in the Home Guard in Cardiff
In Praise of ATS girls
Bombs and chocolate
Afloat in an air raid shelter in Splott!
Best years as a Wren
Red rose on a pilot's grave - sixty years on
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 1
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 2
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 3
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 4
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 5
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 6
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 7
Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 9
A Wren in Scotland
Arrival in Columbo on VE Day
Skipping school to run errands for Yanks
Butcher boy's mistake
The Dancing Girls
missing chicken
Best ever weekend pass
Amazing how we ever got out
Ready to invade Singapore
From Cardigan to Canada
"Make your own way to India!"
Supplying the 14th Army down the Irrawaddy
Unauthorised flight to rescue POWs in Bangkok
Dinner with Japanese officers in Phnom Penh
Saving the King of Siam
1930s Territorial Army
Called up and sad farewells
Transport to Africa
First experiences of West Africa
Wireless Training in The Gambia
Home on leave...and a taste of Yorkshire
From Africa to India...and on to Burma
54 days to get home
From Home Guard to secret Signals mission
Liverpool to Bombay by crowded steamship
Nasty introduction to war in Burma
Sirhowy Valley bombings
Folkestone evacuees in Merthyr Tydfil
Land Army brings new life in Wales
Secrecy in rural Monmouthshire
Guarding Rudolph Hess
Rural memories of a post war landgirl
Issuing ration books in the food office
Loss of father on HMS Neptune
Cardiff schoolboy memories
Eating acorns, and jam tarts
First bomb in the county
London bombings and evacuations
Battle of Britain like a live video
Portsmouth bombing and education
fighting back against the bombers
Fired on in rural Hampshire
Excitement as war ends....then horror
Special gas masks at the telephone exchange
Driving, D-day and beyond
Noise and growing up to realise the danger
A woman in trousers....and the hero mums
Evacuees - London to Somerset
Adventures in childhood
Growing up in Scarborough
Scrambled egg omlette and other food
Scarbrough blitz
The Air Raid Siren
Evacuated to North Wales
Grocery shop in Skewen
A "spy" and a prison escape
Staying fashionable on the coupons
Land Army days in Wales
Bombs and bullies for London evacuee
Bombs and bakers in Barry
Shopping surprise in Eire
Training and preparing for a foreign "draft"
General commanding West Africa
Mystery of dead Japanese officers
Live goats in the rations
Labourers in uniform
Dining via Dakota
Cardinal Puff
Jungle accident
A pint of my blood lies in Gambia
Through West Africa to Burma
Trust and faith in the ATS
Operating radar
Joining up and a good night out
From Grangemouth to Palestine
3232 Servicing Commando Unit
A trip home and marriage
Malta tragedy
From mines to air cadet
Edinburgh Training and passing out
Realising the stupidity of war
From Medical school to Merchant Navy - and back
Aspiring pilot...ends up driving (Owen Cleaver part 1)
Driving adventures (Owen Cleaver 2)
Journey to Rhodesia (Owen Cleaver 3)
Rugby and flying at last (Owen Cleaver 4)
Radio operator becomes desert driver
Palermo sortie and SOS
In civvies to travel home via Lisbon
Pathfinder pilot's prison story
Pathfinder pilot in Amsterdam jail
Pathfinder pilot's arrest
Prisoner's travels
I wanted wings
Embarkation for the Far East
From South Africa to India
End of the fighting in Arakan

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