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A Child's War
The Reason I Joined the Wrens
Life in the Wrens
Derrick's War
House Saved
Evacuation
Aircraft Hangar Party
Welcome to Manchester
The Area Air Raid Wardens' Story
A Realised My Childhood Ambitions
Story from the 'NFS'
Just Getting on with Things
A Young Teenager in the War
Giants at War
Wartime Marriage
Baby Days
VE day
Daisy's Jamacan War Story
Memories of the War in Moss Side
Family Reunion
Memories of Wartime in Burnage
Wartime Toilets
Dummies in Manchester
Mode of Transport
Dorothy's Story
Childhood Memories
Helping the War Effort!
The Start of it All
Wives Club
V.E. Night
Lost Poem Brings Back Memories
Doodlebugs
Catherine's story
Happy it was Over
The Trouble with Rationing
Clifford Brownlow's Story
Life in Munitions- or â€˜Gor Blimey!â€™
The Air Raid Shelter at Frog Lane
Blackpool to Hannover
Memories of younger days
Memories of younger days gone by
The White Cliffs of Dover
Childhood Memories of Growing up in the War
The Horror of Evacuation
Toss of a Coin
Harry Irving - Royal Marine Commando
Women Learning New Skills
Learning in the Shelters
VE Night
Peace at Last
The Day I did as I was told, and got a good hiding.
The Evacuee
An Evacuee
Five Years of a Government Financed World Tour
The Man Who Ended The War
Schoolboy Memories
Evacuation
My teenage years in WW2
A Messenger at War (1939-1945).
War Child
A Few Memories of my time in the RAF during WW2
F Bennet - Concentration Camp
MEMORIES
War Maverick
War maverick (2)
War maverick 3
American Independance Day
Sleeping in an air raid shelter
yanks
RADAR DUTY
Ex women's air force
Brother I never knew
My fathers days as a dessert rat
'Little Benny'
Drawing Flowers on a Bomb
My Evacuation Story by Betty Greenhalgh
The Gentle Austrian
The tiocking Bomb
memories of Dunoon, and Glasgow during the blitz
There has always been Redtape
Evacuees from Guernsey
Apple Pickers
Hangings at Luneberg
In awe of a Refrigerator
I hated the war
Lion on the loose
Disruption of my secondary schooling
Our Dad
Coventry Memories
Back Garden Bomb
Manchester Memories
A Fireman's Memory
School Days And Shelters
A Wartime Student
Memories of a Manchester girl
Manchester in the early years of the War.
Life in the Unique 93RD Searchlight Regiment RA manned only by Women
Siren Suit
Civil Defence
The Wrens
Gorton Under Fire
I saw a bomb pass my window
Wartime Salford
Engineer's Memories
Memories of a boy
My Father
Low Flying Aircraft in Moston
Manchester/ Stretford/Salford
Evacuees
Family Memories in Manchester
Memories of Radcliffe
Memories of Food
Weaste Cemetery
Choir Practice at Manchester Cathedral
Blackout in Castleford
Mill Work in Droylsden
Black-out and Bombings
Lucky Escape!
Manchester Blitz
Rationing
The Chauffer's Tale
School Boy Memories - Part 1.
School Boy Memories. Part 2.
Atlantic Convoys
A Young German Refugee Girl
Memories of an 11 year old
Work, service and the rest.
One night in the blitz in Manchester
My eventful life in the army
An Evacuation Story
MANCHESTER - MY MUM'S LONG WARTIME
Disruption in Education
The War In Oldham
My Cousin
Returning home from Canada at the start of war
EVACUATIONS
The War in Rusholme
RADIO
Wartime Entertainment
School Boy Memories. Part 3.
'Happy Times' Child's wartime memories
Pam at School
THE BOMBER
Air Raid Shelters
Oldham Memories of War
A Helping Hand
Memories of Chesterfield
Life in a Man's World
Deep Sleep
On a Wing and a Prayer
Life on the forts
St. George's Dormitory - "D" Day.
The gas masks arrived on a horse and a cart
Winged Chariots - Part 1: An Outstanding Leader
Experiences of a Country War Child
My Army Uniform was a Tuxedo
Knickers to the Troops
The Night I tried to Share a Soldier's Breakfast
Go to Bed - That's an Order
I Hid Behind the Door to Hear the Declaration of War
The War Wasted My Teenage Years
Evacuated so near Home We Never Opened our Sandwiches
I Named my Cat after Fieldmarshal Montgomery
No Horseplay the Night before D-Day
The Morning After Manchester's Worst Night of the Blitz
Scottish blitz recolections
First Raids in Australia
Rudolf Hess's plane crash
My war childhood in Glasgow
Gathering Eggs with the Farmer's Wife
Bombs above Bolton
The Khedive Ismail Story.
Irish Free State
Schooldays in the Lake District
"Mickey Mouse" Gas Masks.
In the Merchant Navy
Evacuee in Cleator, Cumbria 1940-1945
Memories of a Very Young Child in the War in Pinner
Memories of Eccles--The Show Must Go On
Childhood Memories of Weaste in Wartime
Memories of the War in Clayton, Manchester.
Don's War
Spitfire fund and working holidays
Bomb on the farm
A Walk In The Blitz--(December1941).
War Memories of an Eight Year Old Child.
A small girl's memories of the war.
After the War
Life in the Heavy Artillery
Mend these broken wings.
Margaret from Timperley.
Young David from Plymouth.
War in Fallowfield
Life on a Gun Site
Cateaton Street and it's environs 1939-40.
John Butler's Time at Sea
Leslie's story
A Telephonist in the Blitz
A Wartime Childhood
ME 262- A JET I'D NEVER SEE
Wartime Ireland
Home Guard Memories
Evacuation.
Plane Crash on the family farm.
Evacuated to Fleetwood
Wartime Memories
The Countryside During The War
Death by Snakebite
Our Frank
Snakes Alive!
WHY DAD SWOPPED HIS FOOD RATIONS FOR CIGARETTES
I thought Hitler was a Sod!
Fact or Fiction!
WHY MY DAD VOLUNTEERED FOR THE RAF AT 40
My War Memories and Thoughts
The Best Shelter in Northenden
Chicken feed for Stair Carpet
THE NIGHT DAD NEARLY WENT UP THE WALL
The Most Feared Regiment in the British Army
I walked out of the munitions factory on VJ Day.
The Most Feared Regiment in the British Army
Tribulations of Anderson Shelters
From Liverpool to Bangor
Munitions Manchester
Beryl's Evacuation
My Brother Pushed a Barrage Balloon Away From Our House
The Day Dad Ducked and Saved a Dog
Thornecroft, Woolston Yard.
Bombs and Rosaries
We Thought War Would Be Like a Film with Errol Flynn
We Got the Bomb Instead of Barrow
The Shelter
The Ruler
Cross in the Sky
War Time Memories
Larks
Working at De Havilands
The Manchester Blitz
Manchester Blitz
Free trip to the seaside (part 1)
Free trip to the sea side continued (part 2)
Free trip to the Seaside Continued (part 3)
Yelloew Fever
Getting Plastered.
Sad but Happy Days
My memories of Timperley, 1939-45
Ex-ray not torture
My 21st birthday, August 1941
Childhood in Golborne
Blackpool in 1940
Surrounded by Women
Memories of the Blitz
War Babies' Carry Cots
THE FIRST DAY OF THE WAR
MANCHESTER AND SALFORD BLITZ
THE JIGSAW
Unlucky offer
This is how I lived during the war
Memories
The ATS Lovelies
Grandad
Last Flight of the Bombers
The Day War Broke Out
Six Days and Nights
Final Flight
Lord Haw-Haw
"We still could laugh!"
I Spent the Bus Takings on my Wedding Hat
No Horseplay the Night before D-Day
Wartime childhood in Manchester
Our time in Blackpool in 1939
Evacuation - Manchester to Ribchester.
Manchester Blitz
Incident at The Grave Bridge.
Lucky Escape
My experiences in Royal Air Force
Shipped around the country [evacuee]
Bradford Gas
355 & 194 Squadron
Combat
From evacuee to air gunner
Random Recollections
Long Holidays
Southport Evacuee
Bombers
War Through a Child's Eyes
London Blitz 1940
Lamb's War
PLUTO
Raymond & Bobby
Jungle Jackson
Remembering Pre-Service Units
FROM A SAFETY PIN TO A SHROUD (A RESERVED OCCUPATION IN MANCHESTER)
An Isle of Mann Schoolboy in Wartime
A schoolboy in Stockport by Kenneth Hampson
A young woman working in Stockport
What a tangled web we weave
A time of opportunity
1940: The Christmas Blitz over Manchester
Jean Davisonâ€™s Memories
When Daddy Came Home
Ditching at St Ouen's Bay
Butter and Bombs
Memories
Crafty Deception (or was it a theft?)
Maid's story
Civilian life during the war
WW2 Memories...John Prior
British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and the Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 1
British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 2
British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 3
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Preface, Chapters 1 and 2
Memories from a 12 year old boy
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 3
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 4
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 5
Memories of a lad from Moston
Stockport memories
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 6
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 7
memories
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 8
I started as the RAF volunteer
Bombs on walkden
Wartime Reminiscences -Part 1
Wartime Reminiscences -Part 2
Wartime Reminiscences -Part 3
Wartime Reminiscences -Part 4
Wartime Reminiscences -Part 5
Evacuation, housing, bombs and rations. Part two: Housing.
Hero drowned on leave
Evacuation, housing, bombs and rations. Part one: Evacuation.
Evacuation, housing, bombs and rations. Part three: Bombs and rationing
My Conscription - 1939
My story
Ditching at St Ouen's Bay: Cont.
Listen to me Mary
Ditching at St Ouen's Bay: Part 3.
Marjorie and Betty's storie
John and Jean Harris. Part one: Jeans story.
John and Jean Harris. Part two: John's story.
Margaretâ€™s story.
Normaâ€™s story
ALAN MORGAN BOMBING RAIDS: 15/16 FEBRUARY 1944, BERLIN.
ALAN MORGAN BOMBING RAIDS 19/20 FEBRUARY 1944;LEIPZIG.
Winged Chariots -Part 2: How not to parachute
Winged Chariots -Part 3: A mixed blessing
ALAN MORGAN, BOMBING RAIDS: "GERMAN HITCH-HIKER".
1940 Blitz
RLY Ambulance Trains
Memories of the Blitz in Manchester
AN EVACUEE FROM MANCHESTER TO LYTHAM-ST-ANNES
SOROPTIMIST EFFORTS DURING THE WAR IN MANCHESTER
A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW
"THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD", "IT WASN'T ALL BAD".
Trouble in the sky
Floâ€™s escape from the Blitz
Bananas, Victory V and Carrots
The auctioneer's clear: my first job
21st birthday - August 1940
Civil Shopping
Finding The Radio
Winged Chariots -Part 4: The Chairman Remembers
ALAN MORGAN, BOMBING RAIDS: 20/21 FEBRUARY,1944;STUTTGART.
Winged Chariots -Part 5: Tigers Terrify Brighton
ALAN MORGAN, FLIGHT ENGINEER
Winged Chariots -Part 6: Flak, Flying boots and broom handles
The Arnfield Story
ALAN MORGAN: BOMBING RAIDS. 24/25 FEBRUARY,1944. SCHWEINFURT.
A BRIEF PASSAGE TO INDIA
Love At First Sight
About Me
How We Survived
Memories of the War by Joan
Growing up during the war
A NURSE'S STORY AND HER GERMAN PATIENTS.
The Scottish Episode
Winged Chariots: Dangerous Skies
Winged Chariots -Part 7: From Hurricanes to Dakotas
WE WERENâ€™T ALLOWED TO EAT THE CHIPS!
Winged Chariots -Part 8: Through Valleys of Death
Winged Chariots -Part 9: The Long Walk
Winged Chariots -Part 10: A Close Shave
Winged Chariots -Part 11: Stung By A Mosquito?
Winged Chariots -Part 12: The RAF's Debt Of Gratitude
Winged Chariots -Part 13: The Burmese Beauty
Winged Chariots -Part 14: The Widow Maker
Part time fire woman
Memories of 'My War'
Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 1
The Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 2
Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 3
The Voyage of the â€˜Kota Gedeâ€™
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 9
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 10
A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 11 and Conclusion
From Evacuee to Air Gunner
Basics to Burma
The Blitz
The Blitz
My Childhood Memory 1939-45
Journey to Canada
Journey to Canada
Wartime Memories, Part 1
Wartime Memories, Part 2
A Child's War, Part 1
A Child's War, Part 2
A Child's War, Part 3
A Child's war, Part 4
A Child's War, Part 5
A Child's War, Part 6
A Child's War, Part 7
End of a cinema
Memories
Working at The Docks
Convoy WS 26
British Expeditionary Force 1941
British Expeditionary Force 1941
Dunkirk - A Lucky Escape
Normandy and a Surprising 26th Birthday.
The Coast Route To Holland
A Soldier's Story
Wartime Recollections
A Personal Record 1939 to 1946 by R McHugh
A Personal Record 1939 to 1946 by R. McHugh
A Personal Record 1939 to 1946 by R. McHugh
A Personal Record 1939 to 1946 by R. McHugh A
Dorothy,s Story
The D-Day Dodgers in Italy
Monte Cassino
Child's Memories of War
Experiences in India and Burma
Nora's Story
Some Childhood War Memories
Middleton in the War
Grandad's Story - Part 1
Grandad's Story - Part 2
Grandad's Story - Part 3
Grandad's Story - Part 4

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