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Doodle bug.

My father heard the sound of a doodle bug and opend the front door.I squeezed between him and my uncle to...

Window Bombs

Dad was doing grenadier guard duty at night, mum was at home on her own, she thought she heard bombs...

Trauma of the Whitehall Cinema bombing

The day after the bombing, I remember a man asking the policeman in Turner's Hill what had happened to...

The War Event around London

When war was declared I lived in Sidcup, Kent and worked in London at the Royal Artillery Record Officesin...

Loading Cameras in the WRAF

They put her as the only woman in the camera division in Scotland where she used to climb into the plane...

Bombs over Essex

She remembers how frightening the bombing was and how she felt so sad that “mankind could get so low...

I saw all the films while on duty with St Johns Ambulance

No singing in Hammersmith

When the war was on I was living in London and the bombing was dreadful... When the sirens sounded we had...

my family during the war

At the beginning of the war my mother,brother and younger sister were evacuated to Somerset... We returned...

Air Raid Shelters

We had an Anderson in the back yard but it was always damp, the public shelter was about 500 yrds. from...

my first memory

My Dad was away in the army and we were staying at my Grandparents house 20, Studholm Street, Peckham,...

The truth about "shelter" life

For over 40 years family legend told of one aspect of my father's war, spent in Walthamstow, East...

Hitler's Birthday Present to My Mother

This bomb fell on 20th February 1941, which was my mother's birthday at 10.30pm, but didn't go off....

Buzz Bomb Attack

I'd done a month's training because my height didn't tally with my weight, marching running and...

V E Day memories of Judy Gray

On VE Day I was a student studying Architecture in central London... My family were from London; my father...

IT PAYS TO BE LATE

I was on a radar course in Woolwich when the doodlebugs were flying over. We were in civvy billets and...

the bombing of london

My mum was on her way home from Reading to Harrow in london ,she had to change trains at Paddington she had...

I left school on my 14th birthday

Because you could see what was going on, you used to watch the film as it was drying and sometimes the boss...

My memories of the Whitehall Cinema Bombing

After the bombing, you were allowed to view the damage at the back of the cinema - there was an enormous...

Adventures of a young soldier

Before the war I worked in the jewellery quarter at Hatton Garden in London. I studied instrumentation and...

CROSSING A BRIDGE ON THE RIVER THAMES DURING AN AIR RAID

We dashed across the bridge, bombs falling, searchlights beaming and AA guns firing. We both fell into the...

Grave-stone Bed

A doodlebug dropped on the other side of the church on Bow Road, my mum's flat was opposite the church...

Second Buzz Bomb Attack

After narrowly missing being killed by a buzz bomb during army training, my mate Jim and I went home on...

A sixteen year old in the Auxiliary Fire Service

John Kirkpatrick tells Joan Armstrong his memories of being a sixteen year old serving in the Auxiliary...

Raids in Hounslow

I lived in Hounslow during the war and was doing clerical work at an aircraft factory in Chiswick... There...

Growing up in North London

My mother said it was lucky that I was teething and the bed with my psrents, as the bomb came right through...