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A Woman Doctor (Part Two)icon for Recommended story

So the Colonel got them all together and said that in England, in the winter, snow came up to your neck,...

Suffolk and the D-Day Funnies: Part 1icon for Recommended story

Martin Reagan also remembers Livermere, as the place where the Squadron took delivery of their first batch...

Radar Operator in WW2icon for Recommended story

I did not join up until January 1943 when the Battle of Britain was well and truly over, but after my...

Suffolk and the D-Day Funnies: Part 2icon for Recommended story

Squadrons practiced training on rafts at Bawdsey. Butley Mills pond was used for trials of the...

FLOWERS FROM THE EAST ENDicon for Recommended story

Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...

Service with 56 Hurricane Squadron during the Battle of Britainicon for Recommended story

I passed out from Cranwell in February 1940 at the tender age of 16 and three months, and was posted to 56...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory (Part 3): 'Holding back the Hun'icon for Recommended story

A scruffy London urchin, with no money, no family, and no education, becoming an officer and a gentleman....

A Heroic WAAF, 1944icon for Recommended story

As the tail of the plane whipped backwards, Frank was worried he would be flipped into the fire so...

Life and Death in Wartime Ipswichicon for Recommended story

The first six months of the war were quiet, just odd raids — but town of Ipswich was often passed...

Service in the Suffolk Royal Engineersicon for Recommended story

In about May 1940 the War Office decided that the Gunners would take over the duties of the Sappers. R.E.,...

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My father was a Prison Officer working at the newly opened Holleslay Bay Borstal Colony. The area was...

A Lancaster Pilot - My Father's DFCicon for Recommended story

He trained in Oklahoma at the Spartan School of Aeronautics, and after time in Canada, returned to England...

The Effect of D-Day on Schoolboys: In Felixstoweicon for Recommended story

At the beginning of June 1944 I was one of a number of teengage schoolboys travelling daily from Felixstowe...

622 Squadron: Stirling Incidenticon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo

This Stirling was taken on a test flight by the duty crew, after a service. On landing approach the crew...

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Our Families War

She received 1 shilling a bag, this would go on for days on end and I often did not go to bed...

Perlethorpe to Portsmouth

We had done quite a few operations of the z-z-s type for convoy protection in the North Sea and by this...

Perlethorpe to Portsmouth part 2

Later, that morning we were to lay off Omaha beach to assist the Americans who were having trouble getting...

Working in England

We had an open truck and a German driver with an English guard and two POW operators. Werner told me to...

Extracts from Winifred Basham's diary 1939-1945 Chapter 3

Tues 11th Feb - Percy came home this dinner-time with the news that the Sidegate Lane district was bombed...

War Memoirs with the 12th Lancers — May 1939-Dec 1941

I remember being detailed to drive a prototype Scout Car which steered on all 4 wheels, having a little...

A Teenage Boy's memories

Jo Curtis, the butcher, also liked to come shooting. He was a rather fat man (like many butchers) and when we went out together my task was to get him into a suitable place...

Extracts from Winifred Basham's diary 1939-1945 Chapter 6

So after dinner we went for a picnic with Roger on my bike and Gillian on Percy's... I put Gillian to...

Extracts from Winifred Basham's diary 1939-1945 Chapter 4

Sat 21st Feb - We collected the barley samples and skidded off to Norwich, where Percy made the astonishing...

Extracts from Winifred Basham's diary 1939-1945 Chapter 2

Three of Percy's boys picked up one of the bombs in a wood and are now in hospital... While Percy and...

Childhood Memories -Cox Familyicon for Story with photo

My father had, however, anticipated the outbreak of war and insisted some weeks earlier that my mother...

A Boy's Wartime Memories of Suffolk

Close to where I lived, the whole of the main Ipswich to Norwich road was closed along the length that ran...

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