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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Action Desk, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk
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The Action Desk at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk can help and assist with anyone or signpost people so that their war story can be logged onto the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People's war archive - you can call them 01473 340740 for more information.

They also have lists of events taking place in Suffolk which are celebrating World War 2.
Call the ACTION DESK, ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO SUFFOLK 01473 340740 FOR MORE INFORMATION

Stories contributed by Action Desk, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk

So This Is War
Blitz
Lucky To Be Alive At 92 Years Old
My Wartime Youth
A Childs War
A Young Boy's Memories
Pip:The story of a Suffolk Soldier in Northern Italy 1943-4icon for Story with photo
German P.O.W.s Potato Picking
Fire Away
Student life in Cambridge during the War
The Last Plane to be Lost from Horham Air Base
RUBY'S STORY
A SMALL WINDOW IN SOUTHWOOLD'S WAR
Outbreak of War
Memories of Leeds
Lost Shoe
Friendshipicon for Story with photo
Flying Shelter
THE DOODLE BUG
CONCEIVED IN THE GREAT WAR AND SERVED IN WW2
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY MEMBER
LAST OF THE YANKS IN THE UK
An Evacuee
SCHOOL IN SURREY
BOMBING AT OTLEY
A COMMONWEALTH MEMORY
A week with my Grandmother
Too young for the Job.
Evacuee - to Blackpool.
Hospital
War Time Memories
All Clear - Disappointment!
Snippets from a Wartime Childhood
A Child's War
Childhood memories of WW2
Doodlebug that chased me
Taken short in Southsea
Student Life in Cambridge during the early days of the war
Recollections of German Generals signing surrender in Italy
Wedding Plans
Memories told by my mother about a doodlebug
Childhood Memories in Seaton Carew
Better Late ........
Missed, but only just
The Southgates of Lindbergh Road
V.E.Day (Victory In Europe.) From The Eyes Of A child.
Recruits Red Day
Bomb disposal
A Life Under the Ocean Waves: History of a Royal Marine Divericon for Recommended story
Hard Times But Good Memories
Bethnal Green Station Tragedy
The Butcher's Daughter
Memories of Village School Girl
Evacuation to Clare
Bomb in Melton
Bashing Boxes Into Shape
A Twelve Year Old's War
An American in England
The Day Dad Came Home
Lucky Escape
Parachute Story
V E Day
Back to Front
Parham
New Unit 202
Fighting Fires in Cambridge
The smart Americans
Childhood with Evacuees and Americans
Supporting the Forces
Childhood Memories of WW2
Sidcup - A Child's War
Evacuation to Penzance
The Last Bomb to fall on Britain during WW2
War Boy - Orford
Past Memories
War Memories
Flatened and tilted
War Service 1939- 1946- an Extract
A Truly Spectacular Sight
A Child's Memory Of WW2
WAR LIFE IN ESSEX AND YORKSHIRE
My Story As An Evacuee
The Smart Americans
Fighting Fires in Cambridge
Evacuees and Americans
THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER PART TWO
UNDAUNTED BY THE BOMBS
1943 -1945; Bevin Boy's Coalmines
My War
The Ten Year Old 'Spy'
Great Yarmouth to Ipswich for Munitions Work
Diary of a 17 Year Old in 1943
American Pilot brings Bit Bomber back to England on One Engine Only, After Attack (20th April 1944)
Second World War - Through a Child's Eyes
Wartime in quieter areas
Grandad's Love Story
You'll soon find out
Ambulance Driver
From Lowestoft to Langwith
War comes to school
The Nightcart
It’s a small world
Water Baby
Memories of my wartime days as a Scientific Assistant working at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
My Experiences as a Civil Defence Messenger
HMS The King George V
Nursing in Wartime
From Bath to Hampstead
LEAVING HOME
A YOUNG BOY'S MEMORIES
BY THE GRACE OF GOD
Memories of the War as a Young Boy
A Child's Memories of War
Blasted Claims Forms at Romney House
A Memorable Christmas in Dagenham
What are you queuing for?
Scouser kids have fun
Fire formed lasting friendships
One of ten
Evacuation from Harwich
The 'Reason' I was there
Schoolgirl Volunteers
About the Black and White Americans
Memories of a Surrey lad 1936-1946
"Shepherds Luck"
From tractor to swimming tank
How I whipped Hitler!
The first shot fired… in North Africa
The Day I Drove off with the Brigadier’s Luggage.
Training with the F.A.N.Y.s
What I remember of WWII
Yuan verses the Yen
Wartime Memories - My Turn Next
A School Boys Recollections
4.1/2 years on a Flower Class Corvette
Japanese Prisoner of War Daughter's Story
memories of a pupil at St. Helen's School Ipswich
A Boy Soldiers Story
Grandmothers Bananas and Custard
Bernard Hall's Story
American Candy
Ray's Story
One Night in 1943
Gasmasks and Sandwiches
The Family Pub Was Burned To The Ground
Farm worker with horses
Mountain Retreat
Too Close for Comfort
Six Years of My Life
My War - Dorothy Reynolds
Barbed Wire on the Beach at Great Yarmouth
The saga of the Norwich Road Paperboy
Childhood
A Memory of Christmas 1945. "Silent night"
Blitz - As told by Violet to her daughter
A childhood in a wartime garrison town
Bevin Boy Life
I broke my wrist!
The Straggler
Home and abroad
Life in the barracks
WW2 stories of Sapper Ronald William Tyrrell
Knowing Eisenhower
My Invasion of Europe
Finishing the Task
Radios in Ipswich
Bevan Boy Life
Memories of Evacuation and a German Airman captured
Lancasters
Smoke Screens in Ipswich
Memories of Ipswich, and Christchurch Park.
Wren on the rock
Lincolnshire Memories
Bomb in Melton
Land Army F.A.N.Y
War Time Bomb
Story of a Land Girl
School Evacuation
Invasion
A Life Example
Working with mothers and small children in 2 world wars
Waiting and Waiting for Action
Under the V-1 Flight Path
Nothing heard from the cow
Let loose in London
Romance at Ransomes, Ipswich
A Childs view
Plotting 'Friendlies' and 'Unfriendlies'
Landmine
Home Guard; Christabell
Life as a Prisoner of War captured by Japanese
The night Mother caught a German
Sailor's Coincidence
Journey to the unknown
They fell off the back of a lorry
FROM BOY TO MAN VIA DUNKIRK, AMERICA AND D DAY
A YOUNG VECTIAN'S WAR
TOM'S WAR IN THAILAND
Trip to Japan - 3rd Class
Commando Raids in Holland
Friends and Neighbours by Elizabeth Jane Murray
What a Lovely War
Fighting with a Spanner
Katies War
Memories of a 5/6 year old boy 1943 to 1946
A Wartime Childhood in West London
Womens Airforce
A Child's View of the War
Leading a Sheltered Life
A child's wartime memories in a quiet rural county
In and Out of Ipswich
One Night in the Norwich Blitz
On Guard with a Stick
Unforgettable Memories
Bomb in Melton
Memories of a Village Schoolgirl
Bethnal Green Station Tragedy
War Time Bomb
Story of a Landgirl
Cobbler at War
ELIDE'S WAR
JIM PORTWOOD'S STORY (Part One)
JIM PORTWOOD'S WAR (Part Two)
JIM PORTWOOD'S WAR (Conclusion)
Kirton Village Shopgirl's memories
Benson School on the Move
War time in Suffolk by Eileen Smy
A French Lady and her English Husband's Tale
Food conservation for the war effort
Conserving food
Homeless in Coventry
Invasion
School Evacuation
More than enough sand
my last banana - food conservation!
Benson School on the move
My Apple Pie
Judith Fox - Saved
The Children's War
Working on a small holding at Foxhall
German Bombers
The Tea Room
Secret Work
College Days
Looking for That Someone
Unappreciated Women
Work as GPO Telephonist in Wartime London. Part1, Training and Early Days.
THE BATTLE OF EL-ALANIEIM,THE TANK BATTLE OF THE 23RD REGIMENT
Home World War2 experiences of a young soldier
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN RAF SERVING COMMANDO
LAND ARMY F.A.N.Y
RECOLLECTION OF LIFE IN THE LAND ARMY
Secretary to Bomber Harris(A.O.C. bomber command)
Growing up in the WAAF
Looking for That Someone - Part 2
Rockall
Hospital Nursing:soldier & civilian
Catching Eels
Harry Tates Navy
The Night We Had The Bomb
Memories of a child in World War Two
memories of a child in world war 2
childs memories of world war 2
Wartime memories
Childhood memories of world war 2
Childhood memories of world war 2
Looking for That Someone - Part 3
memories of a child in world war 2
Looking for That Someone - Part 4
Happy Teenage Years. WW2
A Guilt Conscience ??
A Guilt Conscience
A Guilt Conscience by Ronald Curtis
The Second World War and Me!: Memories of a Surrey Lad 1936 — 1946
The Story of My Life’s Ambition to go to Sea and How I Eventually Ended up as an Ex-Sparrow
DUNKIRK — HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Into Germany.
Child Experiences from Antwerp to London Part 1
Child experiences of war from Antwerp to London. Part 2
Evacuated
Royal Naval Patrol Service Experiences
Royal Navy General
Childhood Memories
GPO Telephonist
GPO Telephonist Part 1
GPO Telephonist Part 2

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