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All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...

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The orphanage outgrew the house and a vast new one was built at the other end of the village then Tower...

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It must have been winter because it was terribly cold, so when one day a notice appeared on the...

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Germany had tried so hard to find the shipbuilding industry in Aberdeen, just like elsewhere, and on 12th...

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At this point you could really see how the technology had advanced, commandos had stolen plans for the Atom...

My Secret War

UNDAUNTED, Walter and myself roller-skated the three miles to the airport at Dyce, occupied by RAF Fighter...

Tom Scotland MN (part1)

After this I became thoroughly disgruntled with my job and in September, 1941 came my chance to return to...

Cooking in the WAAFs

When I had to go in Scotland where I lived in Fife, in Kirkaldy, I went for a Medical and was asked...

Training for D-Day

I joined the Navy in August 1943, and after initial training at H.M.S. "Collingwood" at Fareham I...

From Possilpark To Hutcheon Park

Small wonder that mothers and children were worn out and in tears and that the host families waiting the...

My Busy War

At this stage, I used to have to shout through to the front shop: "Charlie, do you want pork or beef...

My Involvements with the Luftwaffe 1939-1943

After a short time Aberdeen also fell victinm to Luftwaffe attacks aircraft based at Stavanger could reach...

My War Experience after Call Up dictated by Joe Thomas

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H.M.S. Wisteria

When I came out Wisteria was on patrol, so I was transferred to a drifter ‘ Fairhaven ‘ which...

Youth In Aberdeen

A Heinkel flew low over East Saint Nicholas Churchyard. followed by two fire-spitting Hurricanes**. We...

Wartime Landmine Disaster in Paisley Remfrewshire May 1941 - part 2

At Greenock, the Tate and Lyle sugar refinery had already been bombed that night and the blaze was so...

Aberdeen Memories

She lived with my grandparents, her brother and sister in a tenement style flat 3 or 4 stories up at 285...

Happy memories as a WAFicon for Story with photo

I said "I want to be like my brother and join the airforce". He said "but you're a...

Talking to German POWs

Thus some German POWs who were stationed near Perth began being allowed out in the evenings provided they...

Spies in Scotland

At one point Churchill was heard to declare that the Germans were to be made to believe that the second...

A Dundee Bairn's War

When the bombs dropped by Dad was on duty as a special constable and helped the folks get out of the...

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