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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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If you are interested in becoming involved in the People's war project with the 大象传媒 you can get more information from your local CSV action desk at 大象传媒 WM. You can call us on 08453 030 030.

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We'd like to thank the people and organizations who have already helped in our effort to gather these rememberances; The Irish Centre, The Wheaton Aston's Leisure Club, Pipewood, The Lee Bank Association, Optima Housing, The Big Lottery Fund and the Nechells Local History Society.

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Stories contributed by WMCSVActionDesk

VE Day in the Lickeys Bromsgrove
School Days Age 11
The War - A poem
Lead Soldiers
From 15 to 21
Animals and Air Raids
Low-flying Messerschmitt
One Family's Life During the Birmingham Blitz
Reminiscences from a Country Town in North Oxfordshire
I didn't see my friend again
My Time on the Farm
A Child's Experiences
A Nurse's Story
Protection from Airial Bombardment
Bombing
A Wartime Mystery
Our Anderson Shelter
From Council Messenger to RAF
Ankle-deep in soot
A sad VE Day
Mixed Blessings
The Longest Air Raid
Roses Story
Working in the shadow factory
Evacuated to the end of the world
Colleens wartime memories (part 1)
Colleens wartime memories (part 2)
Evacuation - Pipewood
My Italian Grandad
The Air Raid Shelters
A Young Boy's War
Fun and Fears
Doodle Bugs
One Fine Summer's Morn
A Casualty of War
Hostile Environment
A Childs War
Memories of the Blitz
The Life Of A Wartime Van Driver
My Wartime Life from 1940 to 1945 - Reginald Cleaver
Part II of Reginald Cleaver's Extraordinary War Experiences: After the Crash
A House with no roof
The first time I saw a Banana
The shelter under St Luke's Church
My Glen Miller Orchestra Storyicon for Recommended story
The Vegetable Colander
My VE day poem
My Time with 271 Squadron Chapter 1
My Time with 271 Squadron Chapter 2
My Time with 271 Squadron Chapter 3
the Service Corps
It's only a numbericon for Recommended story
A Southerner鈥檚 Point of View
War Years 1939-45
The Day War Broke Out
My Odysseyicon for Recommended story
Saving Private Ryan, Alveley and my first Portable Radioicon for Recommended story
My Time At Pipewood School - Girls Wartime Boarding School
Memories of Wartime Sparkhill, Birmingham
Wartime Treats as a Kid in Selly Oak
Evacuation Pipewood 1941-1943
My Wartime Experiences
No more Blackpool holidays
training session
The Saskatchewan Miracle
Wartime Work in the Oxford Institute of Statistics
Wartime Wedding
Memories of High Ercall
From Wiltshire to Rome
Life in the Land Army 1941-1943
A Short Evacuation
A Boy During the War
My War
Life at Fisher and Ludlows
Air Raid Memories
Sausage Sandwiches
Who's snoring?
Ammo factory dangers
A Child's Day Trip Out
Back-to-Back Memories
No Words Necessary
Blown Away
'Dances with Sailors'
Memories from a Convent Girl
The strike at R.A.F Mauripur
When Betty was nine
Being Evacuated (by Nora)
Heinkel III crashes in Smethwick
A six year olds memory of WW2
Experience of my wartime evacuation by Mr Stead-
Safe and Sound
Old Father Thames
Streets Ran with Sugar
Recollections
Parrot in a Cage
Remember that You're A Brummie!
Only Bomb in Hereford
The Last Goodbye?
Safe at Last
My Experience of Wartime Rationing
Life in the 91 (Nigeria) Squadron
Blitzed
Air Raids on B.C.T Bus Garages
An Outline of the Life of a Conscientious Objector to War
A Good Neighbour
Summerfield Park, Ladywood ,Birmingham
Evacuation to Astley
A Close Encounter
Air Raids in Ladywood, Birmngham
Patriotism
Safe Again
My First Banana
A Holiday Encounter
The Windmill Lane near miss
The Beech Tree
North Atlantic Run
Near Misses
Evacuation
Jottings of a Wartime Teenager
Dog in a blanket
A Rapid Descent
Coventry Memories
Lucky Me
A Foggy Saturday
The Rag and Bone Man
Lucky Family
A New Job
General De Gaulle鈥檚 visit
When Father joined The N.F.S
Dogfight between Spitfire and Messerschmitt
The "Short" Kiss Goodnight
Bob's gruesome discovery
The Chinese Who Sailed For Britian
A Schoolboys War
A cosy distraction from the War
Ten Metres Shy
The D.IY Iron Lung
WW2 North Atlantic Flag Ship - Duke of York
Our Evacuee Story
A Wartime School Anecdote
Cathy's Story by Cathy Jones (nee Haseler)
Peter Cowin's WW2 RAF Service
In the Early Years of the Bomber Command Offensive
A Miraculous Escape
Ground Support for Allied Armies with Spitfires and Meteors of the Second Tactical Air Force
Dora's Story
School boy at war
A very lucky evacuee
A very lucky evacuee part 2
A 大象传媒 radio interview in 1942
The Americans
The thanks they deserve
My part during the war
Teacher training in top-coats
Amy
Food for Thought
A bomb in my face on my 13th Birthday
Little German Girl
Caretaker of Limestone Road
Eighty Seven Ashted Row
Big Bites of food and small sips of tea
Army, Navy and RAF, a family of heroes
Memories By Marjorie
I Was There!icon for Recommended story
Two weeks of days and two weeks of nights
The night on 19th November 1940
2 shillings 6 pence for a cup of tea
Operation Pied Piper
Sweet Shop in Aston
Paratrooping with the 6th Airborne Division
Panic as Daytime German came to Glebe Farm
Air Raids At New Hall
My Hero
My Sleepy Aunt
We All Had Good Teeth
My Dad's in the Army - You Can't Come In!
Yanks in Brackley
Blackcurrant Jam
Honoured to Write on the Blackboard
Coventrated
Matt Guymer's Recollections, Part 1: Landing in Normandyicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
Matt Guymer's Recollections, Part 2: Bocage Countryicon for Recommended story
Moving to Hereford
Matt Guymer's Recollections, Part 3: The Falaise Gapicon for Recommended story
Phoney War
Moving to Whitbourne
Lovely Fruit Loaves
Meeting my Brother Again
Matt Guymer's Recollections, Part 4: Into Belgiumicon for Recommended story
Pumping Bellows for the Church Organ
Going Home
Matt Guymer's Recollections, Part 5: Germany, and the War Endsicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
After the Homecoming
Big Mistake Becoming a Bevan Boy
My Lost Brother
Working as a Conductor
78th Battleaxe Division
Out in the Day
Civilian Kid Airman
My 48 hours notice to go to Kidderminster
He's coming tonight
Yesterdays Child
Silver cup and a Penny
The Sweet Shop
The Blitz Birmingham and Coventry
From Light to Dark
Teenagers War Memories
Memories of the BSA
Hodnet Hall
Doodle-Bug
Boiler Break Down
An Unforgettable Cinema Visit
When Smog Was a Frequent occurrence
Incendiary Bombs at Lea Village
Memories of Hercules: Home guard Part 2
Child of the War
Commissioned Officer
Mary In the Land Army
Easter Holiday 1941
The Sacrifice of 19 Young British and Canadian Pilots Who Trained Toegther in Saskatchewan in 1942
Mice ate the Cheese!
A Peaceful Home Front
The Smell of Fish and Chips
Organized into Crocodiles
Family and the War
Marriage 1944icon for Recommended story
I always did as my sister told me.
Junior Chemist in War
Back to Work as Usual
If he wants me he can find me up here!
We got out just in time!
Lucky Not to be Bombed
Coal, Mice and Us!
I can't take much more of this!
Frazzled Nerves
Junior Chemist in War.Pt 2
Junior Chemist in War Part 3
We could feel the house shake
High class ladies lingerie
War Clouds Looming
My First trip to Wales
Anderson Shelter in our Front Yard
Summerfield Park
The First of Many Nights to Come
It was Great to be in Long Trousers
The Bombings Still Continued
Junior Chemist in the War - Part 4
The Second World War was the Reason I was Born
Luck, Loss and Heroism
My WW2 Years from age 12 To 17
Knit One, Purl One
The Volunteer Vanguard
Remembering Other People's Hell (1)
Early Days of the War
She played the accordion
Remembering Other People's Hell (2)
Country Life was not for Me!
Nora Rose's Story
War dehumanises us all!
Time to Evacuate
Some very hot drums!
Leon Armstrong's Raf Career
Tubby Clayton's Visit to the Rectory
Mystery History
A short story of my war
The Day a Pilot Dropped in My Gardenicon for Recommended story
Stirchley bombing
Childhood in the Second World War
The Bath Blitz
My war in Hockley
French Knitting, Small Nails and a teapot Stand
Chocolate Cocktail
Spitfires and Doodlebugs
Friday Night at the YMCA
Dads' Army Rings So True!
The 'Secret Larder'
Dropped my knitting
The Only Raid on Barnstaple / Flying Coffins
I won't eat the Rabbit!
Looking in shelters to see if we were all ok!
Trapped Swans
American at a Bus Stop
Putting out the bombs
Old Sailor With A Wooden Leg
Rags - Jack Russell
Barnstaple Pannier Market
Playing the Wag
Blackout Curtains
Air raids at the Maternity Hospital
The Professor's Dugout
Mum wouldn't evacuate us
Staying on after the war
What was all the Fuss About
I thought it was 2 months but it was 2 days!
Bring out the Deck Chairs!
Last Moments in the RAF
This is Your Captain Speaking
The Big Retreat
Memoirs of Gwenyth Eileen Baker (nee Hall)
Under the Red Eagle
City Centre Life
Evacuation of Children from Birmingham to Coalville, Leics. Sept 1939
For my Father
Brothers In Arms: part 1
Brothers In Arms: part 2
Wartime Education at Sparkhill Commercial School Birmingham
Evacuation from Birmingham to Pipewood School Blithbury Staffordshire September 1940-1942
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 1icon for Story with photo
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 2
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 3
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 4
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 5
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 6
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 7
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 8
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 9
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 10
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 11
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 12
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 13
A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 14
Evacuation to from Handsworth to Tenbury Wells
An Irish nurse in East Sussex, Part 1
'Dancing, Dancing, Dancing' - An Irish nurse in East Sussex, Part 2
Love from Grandpa
Number 24 Alfred Street, Handsworth, Birmingham 21
Memories of a Bus 'Clippie' in Birmingham
War time experience in Northumberland
Life in the Civil Nursing Reserve
Seeing the Royal Family on V.E. Day
Childhood Memories of the War - Catshill & Oldbury
Kippers for Breakfast
Driving in the WAAFs
How my mother and father met in WW2
Did They Always Know What Was Best for Us?
Separated and in Hiding
Christmas Before the War
Prologue of the War
Life Goes on - Part 1
Life Goes On - Part 2
Life Goes On - Part 3
Betrayal
KOOTWIJKERBROEK - Part 1
KOOTWIJKERBROEK - Part 2
Is that the butcher boy?
Zeist - Part 1
Zeist - Part 2
Amsterdam 1044 -Part 1
Amsterdam - Part 2
EVACUATED
Wartime story of a 9-year-old boy
The Piat Gun
Little Memories of the War as a Child
Not Just a Coincidence!
Daylight Was A Constant Worry
The Day the Chickens Came
A child's war in Denmark
A Birthday I Shall Never Forget
A Unique Story (With a Bucket)
How HMS Wensleydale nearly (but not quite) sank
Coventry Blitz, 14th November 1940
Evacuation to Radway, Warwickshire
Before I forget
A Survivor's Account of a Near Miss
In Memory of My Uncle
The Story of Eric and Eileen's Wedding
Five Laid out in A Row
Those Days Are Gone
Schoolboy Evaucation
Couldn't Wait to Join
7 weeks before the End
Rationing and Queing
Building the Anderson Shelter
Alton and WW2
The War Through the Eyes of a Small Boy
Little Memories of the War
Empire Dayicon for Story with photo
Plane Crash In Denmark
West Bromwich at War - Introduction
West Bromwich at War - Part 1
West Bromwich at War - Part 2
West Bromwich at War - Part 3
Memory of My Dear Uncleicon for Story with photo
The Germans Surrender!icon for Story with photo
Fun Days During the Blitz in Birmingam
"I've travelled thousands of miles and never bought a ticket!"
Home Away From Homeicon for Story with photo
Small Enough to Fit into a Gun Turret
My Service Career 1939-1946
Operation Mitteland Canal
Operation Dresden
The year I was evacuated
North African Encounter
The Buzz Bomb
The Apprentice - Part 1icon for Story with photo
The Evacueeicon for Story with photo
The Apprentice - Part 2icon for Story with photo
Recollections of My Military Service - Part 1
Recollections of My Military Service - Part 2
Recollections of My Military Service - Part 3
Recollections of My Military Service - Part 4
One Drink Too Many Saved His Life
My D-Day Landingicon for Story with photo
British Normandy Landingicon for Story with photo
Bomb Disposal in Birminghamicon for Story with photo
Driving the Brigadiericon for Story with photo
Me and the Girlsicon for Story with photo
Just Doing What We Had To Do!icon for Story with photo
V.E. Party - Part 2icon for Story with photo
V.E.Party - Part 1icon for Story with photo
Let's All Play Our Particon for Story with photo
RADAR
A Brief Wartime Honeymoon
A "Cruise" on A German Troopship
The Ruhr Tour
Helen's War
My Mom Was A Hero
Being Sent to Harvington
My Duty For My Kingicon for Story with photo
Notice From the Red Crossicon for Story with photo
Christmas 1940icon for Story with photo
Now Be a Good Girl!icon for Story with photo
Class 107icon for Story with photo
Christmas Card Homeicon for Story with photo
Tragic Coincidence
My Dad
The Price of Peace
SECRETS
Childhood Memories of the 2nd WW in Birminghamicon for Story with photo
My dad was never much at aircraft spotting
Tractor boy nearly topples Granddad
A Dodecanese Operation
Naval History of G.T.H. Green - Part 1
Naval History of G.T.H Green - Part 2
Naval History of G.T.H.Green - Part 3
Naval History of G.T.H. Green - Part 4
Naval History of G.T.H.Green - Part 5
Naval History of G.T.H.Green - Part 6
Naval History of G.T.H. Green - Part 7
Naval History of G.T.H. Green - Part 8
Naval History of G.T.H.Green - Part 9
Naval History of G.T.H.Green - Part 10
40th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.icon for Story with photo
We Met Again!icon for Story with photo
A Once Apon A Time Story
Pacifism and war
Wartime Wedding
My Adventures in WW2 - Part 1
My Adventures in WW2 - Part 2
A Birthday Chance in A Millionicon for Story with photo
MY WARicon for Story with photo
Highlights of My War - Part 1icon for Story with photo
Highlights of My War - Part 2
The Story of Number One Advance Landing Groupicon for Story with photo
From Birmingham to Burma and Backicon for Story with photo
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 1
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 2
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 3
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 4
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 5
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 6
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 7
No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 8
Cheney Court -Part 1icon for Story with photo
Cheney Court - Part 2icon for Story with photo
Cheney Court - Part 3icon for Story with photo
Letter from Nachodicon for Story with photo
From Gas Masks to Guns; A Long Way From Homeicon for Story with photo
The Tudor Family - Part 1
The Tudor Family - Part 2
Birmingham in the War - From My Angle
Ideal Parents for an Evacuee
鈥淢y Invasion鈥 - Norfolk to Normandy
Victory in Europe Day

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