Coming from a very ordinary family living in a council house in Liverpool, with no member of my family...
There were 15 bomb stations on a Lancaster and the aircraft was loaded in order to keep the aircraft stable...
At initial Training Wing I was lucky enough to be at New Clare and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge, where...
In April or May 1942, the Workshops Section Officer of 231 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers in 11 Corps...
When I arrived at Huntingdon Station, I was met by a truck driver who threw my kit bag in the back of...
Like the sound of a siren and the goose bumps that immediately appear over my body, even now, whenever I...
Sometimes Uncle Bill would kill a hen that had stopped laying and it was cooked in a saucepan as a...
My brother George Percival Pledger was called up for the Militia. My husband Arthur Parker was sent out all...
We only travelled for about two hours and ended up at Ely station. While at Ely, my Mum and Dad, Aunt and...
I remember after the fall of France - it would have been about 1942; our eldest child David, he was just...
My sister and i were three years old when the second would war started So the story goes is that my mum...
The farm was about half a mile south of the main runway of the Bourn airfield a base for Mosquito bombers...
Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day. I then moved to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in Birmingham for general...
I was finally posted to 97 Squadron at Bourn near Cambridge; part of the 8 Pathfinder Force. I took part in...
My auntie was crying as she dreaded the bombs were hitting Linton as the sky was lit up in that...
My uncles used to make me toys like dolls houses, monkeys or clown acrobats that swung between two sticks...
These letters were given to me to copy on to this site by by aunt Joan Punter she now owns these letters...
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We found ourselves in the village hall at St Neots, Cambridgeshire, standing with many other London...
The preparation for war left no time for looking for English cousins except for two days with a related...
One night there were Stirling bombers, and German planes were attacking them, and we were watching the...
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