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Three Nights Blitz - Swansea Town February 1941

In the blackout the town usually had an eerie silence, but during those three nights it looked more like a...

Dads Army

Hello At the age of 6 years or so I remember accompaning my Dad on week end manoeuvares with the Home Guard...

Return to St Athan.

This was to create from raw mechanics and fitters, air-crew capable of becoming the seventh member of a...

My Experiences as an Evacuee

We went to a small village in South Wales and it was quite difficult to mix with other people in the...

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Bevin Boy

I was going to be a 'Bevin Boy'. I was sent to South Wales, ironically, this is where my family...

To Catch a Policeman

He said that he was a policeman on duty having a crafty cigarette. My policeman friend offered to get me a...

Our Playgrounds were Bombed Building Sites.

The center of Swansea,had a three day blitz.Anyway,when I was growing up,The bombed buildings were my,and...

Evacuees and Stew!

We had evacuees staying with us for the whole of the war — the Grandmother and most of the children...

Chopin in Swansea

I grew up in Swansea, high up above the town, two streets from where Dylan Thomas lived... The German...

Fish and chips for Monty

The reason was that the Supreme Allied Commanders, Generals Montgomery, Bradley and Eisenhower, and Winston...

Evacuation to Wales from Liverpool

I was four years old when I was evacuated to Wales from Liverpool....

Wartime in Port Talbot

Below is a memoir written by Mrs. Jean O'Connor typed by Christine Pearce of Neath Port Talbot...

Cliff Cobley: Anti U Boat Escorticon for Story with photo

A week before D Day we went to Dartmouth in Devon where we picked up American Officers, they stayed on our...

Singing for the Troops

My mother, brother Geraint, and I were evacuated from London to live with my aunt in Lampeter. when I was...

WW2 Memories

I can remember sitting under the stairs during air raids, although they were a long way away and sitting in...

Sunderland Flying Boats

I can remember being shut in the cupboard under the stairs, before I was two years old, as a bomb fell on...

WW2: Seen through the eyes of a child in the Welsh Valleys.

However newport which was the nearest town about 10 miles away was heavily bombed because of the docks and...

Lord Haw Haw and the Catholic Church.

I lived in the Welsh Valleys during the war and in the village we had a lot of chapels the church of...

Announcing the War

Within days workmen had come to my village to cut down all the metal railings to be melted down and used to...

Attack on Swansea, 1941

I was the youngest of 5 brothers during the war in Swansea... What we thought was a bomb blast, was in fact...

Evacuated - from London to South Wales

The children in the street gathered round me, they asked me different questions about london....

Parachutes to Knickers!

Her mother was a good streamstress and regularly made knickers from parachute material. In 1943 she wore a...

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