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Stories contributed by CovWarkCSVActionDesk

Life in Occupied Shanghai - 1941
Coventry Blitz
Memories
Voyages I & II
A Young Person's Story of the War
Memories of the Blitz
In the Crypt
Prudhoe Girls Training Corps
Clifford Wynne's Wartime Memories
Memories of the Merseyside Blitz
A Chance Meeting
Coventry Blitz 14th November1940
Ditched!
My Memories of World War Two
My Story
Six Eggs
A Wartime Childhood in Coventry
Escape From Singapore
Backward Glances of a 'Junior Miss'
An Evacuee in Wartime Coventry
Joining the War Effort at 14!!
Childhood Memories of Birmingham and Northampton
A Child's Memories of the War
Beer and Chips
Keeping Ourselves Together
Those Elusive Wings
VE Night at the Ballet
A Chapter of Narrow Escapes
Little Children with Big Labels
A Friend Made in Time of War
An Eventful Wartime Wedding
'You Were Young, and You Just Carried On'
Setting His Cap for Me
From Binley to Burton Hastings
'If We're Going to Die, We'll All Die Together'
Hot tea and hard floors
Hot Tea & Hard Floors
The Army take over at Manor Farm in Yorkshire!
Memories of the Military Police.
Self heating soup and scalded ears.
My French pen pal
The Heroes of Henry Street
Mom in a Pram
Prisoners of War in Birmingham
First raid I can remember
My first day at work
Diamond Italians!
Chain gang
Daimler staff
Mystery Ships In Dover on Xmas Day in 1939 or 1940???
Fire Watching
Avoiding the Bombs
Lower Ford St Kid
The Staircase Saved Us Twice!
Up and down the Kenilworth Road on Blitz Night!
War Time Memories
My memories of 1940 Coventry
Thin soup and bread rolls lead to a cunning plan!
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
"Got any Gum chum?"
Parasite Drag
Rationing in 1940 and my father's face!
Lucky Plumber!
The War Event around London
Minesweepers
An Ex-Chindit's Memories
What a coincidence!
From 17 to 21 - overnight!
Put One Up The Spout Fred
The Long Wait
Memory Lane
Born in a Church - Protected by Angels?
21st October Bombing
Unsung Heroes of the GPO Phone Exchange
The Fuller鈥檚 Earth Mine
Hiroshima Saved My Bacon.
The Night the Bomb Dropped.
Memories Recalled
Family Recollection
My War
Good times & bad
The Daimler Raid
Called to the Daimler Fire
Knock Knock...Who's there?
I was saved from dying over Berlin.
Pelted with chewing gum not grenades!
Sending sweet rations to Germany for christmas.
The torment of a young evacuee
The biggest shock was seeing an egg for the first time!
Chalk aeroplanes
Hammering the shelters in celebration.
Fish and chips- A matter of life or death.
People went bananas for bananas!
Friendly fire almost killed me.
"There you are I told you so!"
Ice-cream...need I say more?
War Stories of an Acting Unpaid Lance Corporal
Early Childhood Memories-Rochdale
Escape from bombing
Thoughts on the 1940s-part one
Thoughts on the 1940s-part two
G.S. Jobson Grocery
Moving cows
Life went on.....
I Wonder What it's like to be Dead?
Who stole the bread roles? Part 1 - A picture of the hospital.
Who stole the bread roles? Part 2 - Frank arrives.
Who stole the bread rolls? Part 3 - We still had the key!
Aston-Under-Lyne Childhood Memories
Altrincham Childhood Memories
My First Pack of Smarties
10 Year Olds Tale
60th Anniversary of VE Day
Mr D OLD Story
WAR TIME DAYS PART1
WAR TIME DAYS PART 2
WAR TIME DAYS PART 3
WAR TIME DAYS PART 2
WAR TIME DAYS PART 3
WAR TIME DAYS PART 1
Good Friends
Put That Light Out!
The war as it was for me
Called Up at 18 1/2
Miss-spent youth
A CHILD'S MEMORIES OF THE WAR
Bombed out of All Saints Road
Free Eggs!!!
The Goodman Family War (Part One)
Blown off the Lav'!
Showered by soap and square eggs!
The Goodman Family War (Part Two).
The Goodman Family War (Part Three).
The Goodman Family War (Part Four).
The Goodman Family War (Part Five).
"Pick up your parrots and monkeys!"
Desperate Plight of a Polish Prisoner.
His Eyes and my Grandfather's Legs.
Army Service Part 2
A Night in the Cinema
Fire and Water
Lost in the Dark
Terror at Conway Road School
Army Service Part 1
Army Service Part 3
Army Service Part 4
A CHILD,S MEMORIES OF THE WAR
MRS GLADYS BRIMLEY'S STORY
3 Days Ordeal Then Happiness
THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 14TH,1940
FROM PEACE TO WAR AND BACK
A Dancer's Memories
GOOD SLEEPERS
A Split Skirt
A Happy Life
Dog Fights in the Air
I survived
ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 1 (OF4)
Sleeping Through the Blitz
ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 2
ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 3
Bomb Site Playground
ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 4
Tea from the Toilet
Evacuees Memories
"RAGS"
"THE STATUE"
STRAIGHT THROUGH
Snow
Night Ride
Our Nextdoor Neighbour Worked for Hitler
It Passed Me By (Part One)
It Passed Me By (Part Two)
Friendly Fire
It Passed Me By (Part Three)
It Passed Me By (Part Four)
It Passed Me By (Part Five)
Railings
Wartime Wireless
A Chance Encounter
Memories
The Looks
After the Raid
Press Release - 1945
Deja Vu
The Icing on the Cake
Americans
Serious Business
Blackout
Childhood Memories
Dropped in for Tea
Smoke
Impressions of a War Child (part one)
Impressions of a War Child (Part Two)
Impressions of a War child (Part Three)
Clockwork Dinosaur
Wireless in Wartime (part one)
Wireless in Wartime (Part Two)
I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD
MY WARTIME EXPERIENCE
Nights in the Anderson
Dublin to Coventry during the War
From Ireland for the War
Wrongs and Right Angles
One Banana
Air Raids=Chocolate
Bombed Out
Wolsingham War Memories
Memories of Coventry Blitz
Leeds and Aberdeen: Cities of Contrast
John Brown's extended war
Cut-Off
A Bomber's Moon
Second Love Letter
Away From It All
The Plague of Doodle-bugs
Rationing? What Rationing?
'Thank Amy for the Biscuits'
New Places - Strange Faces (Part One).
New Places - Strange Faces (Part Two).
Pre D-Day
No Cream Cakes
My Own Early-Warning System
Spam Salad
Deadly Moonlight
Make Do and Mend
I Remember It Well
Hedge-hopping in Sussex
Chalk and Cheese
The Buxton Festival
I MISS THAT NOW
A WARDEN'S STORY
SAD LOSSES
SEPTEMBER 3RD 1939
WARTIME RECOLLECTIONS IN COVENTRY
FOGGIA, ITALY
Anderson Shelters
Rationing
ON MUNITIONS
FROM SCOTLAND TO COVENTRY
THE SCHARNHORST AND AFTER
BIG BERTHA
MY WEDDING DAY
Boots are all important
trips to the dreaded pig bin
A GERMAN FAMILY IN THE FAR EAST PART 1
GERMAN FAMILY IN THE FAR EAST PART 2
ALAN CAUDWELL'S STORY
"LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS"
WHAT DISTRESSED W.J.GIBBS
AN IRISH RIFLEMAN
FOOD SUPPLIES AND FIRE BOMBS
A child's war
Pam's Anecdotes
Rosie's Story
Rosie Emily's Story
IN THE HOME GUARD
DURING THE BLITZ ON MANCHESTER
TRAVELLING IN THE R.A.F.
WARTIME FOOD
OUR JOAN
Places of Play
That tiny baby
Ernie's personal recollections - part one
Ernie Smith's recollections - part two
Some of Jean's recollections
I ENJOYED CHILDHOOD TRIPS TO AIR RAID SHELTER
A FEW REMINISCENCES OF WORLD WAR 2
A FEW REMINISCENCES OF WORLD WAR 2
Village life
I still made it to art school
THE HORSE PARTY
FOLLWED ON A BIKE
STALAG XXA
THE TRUE STORY OF ANGELO ROSSI OF CAMPRIANO
LOST IN AN AIR RAID
Gulson Rd Hospital (St John's Ambulance)
JEAN'S BLITZ
REMEMBERING BERT BOURNE
GRETA'S WAR
MISHAP IN NAPLES
Make Do and Mend
Growing in the War
Growing in the War 1
JEAN AND ALLAN BRAYLEY
MY WAR IN THE LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS-3 CLOSE CALLS
IN COVENTRY AND EVACUATION TO KNOWLE
CODER SAUNDERS
JUST WAITING
Resting in Peace
The Hopkins Family - Part One
The Hopkins Family - Part Two
The Hopkins Family - Part Three
The Hopkins Family - Part Four
The Hopkins Family - Part Five
The Hopkins Family - Part Five
The Hopkins Family - Part Six
Three Little Pigs
George Pearson - Young Home Guard and Royal Marine - Part 1
George Pearson - Young Home Guard and Royal Marine - Part 2
George Pearson - Young Home Guard and Royal Marine - Part 3
Mr Shuttleworth's War Time Memories
Black, Khaki & Blue(3 Uniforms) Part 1 of 2
Black, Khaki & Blue(3 Uniforms) Part 2 of 2
War Time Memories Part 1 of 3
War Time Memories Part 2 of 3
War Time Memories Part 3 of 3
A PASTING

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