International Friendships

Doing Jobs for the Yanks

They had one woman doing their washing and always kept the same woman as they got used to the way they did...

My Black Uncle

Uncle Jack was in the RASC and was at both Dunkirk and the Normandy Landings on D day. Into the pub came...

Nearly nude

With the war in Italy almost over,Tom and I were able to take advantage of the generous leave given to us...

German P.O.W.s Potato Picking

Each day a group of about ten German POWs arrived in a R.A.F. lorry and guarded by one...

Interview with a World War Two Veteran.

Interview with a World War Two Veteran. This is an interveiw with a World War Two veteran....

A German POW Doctor Saved My Life

They were Mabel, Joan, Beatrice, Margaret, Dennis and finally Les, my dad. The base had a POW camp and a...

Childhood Memories

A bomb destroyed two cottages just out of Burcot and we children all went on our bikes to collect...

My Evacuation Memories

It was quite a shock after living in London with all mod cons. I still have a wooden tractor that was made...

POWS on the farm

Robert, the eldest, could say very little; Hans made up for his lack of English words with jolly gestures;...

Canadian Surprise!

Something was up, and the Sherman tanks and army lorries with silent soldiers in the back rolled past the...

The Yank ' Big Leo' by Bernard MC Cormack

The Yank: Big Leo’ By Bernard Mc Cormack Location: Derry, Northern Ireland. It had the famous white...

Beaminster During the War

We weren't affected badly by the bombing in Beaminster... A German plane came down the other side of...

Chocolate

By that time, my Dad had brought mum to Kettering and I was born at the General Hospital... I could see...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Kilmarnock

The Grand Hall in Kilmarnock was used to incarcerate Italian Prisoners of War... The Italians from...

A Little Girl's Wartime Memory of Visiting Ships in Barry Dock by Jacqueline Brooks (nee Kathrens)

A Little Girl's Wartime Memory of Visiting Ships in Barry Dock by Jacqueline Brooks. This was a...

GI and Bevin Boy Experiences

Again, my friend and I were dated by Paddy and Liam... My friend and Liam went one way to Queen Street and...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 4: More Oranges - June 1944 “Yanks Confined to barracks”

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 4: More Oranges - June 1944 “Yanks Confined to barracks”...

Yanks in Blackburn

We thought they were different- they had more money than the local lads- they were smarter, more confident...

Working as a Hairdresser

Dancers was a large store with both a barbers and a hairdressers selling expensive cosmetics by Elizabeth...

Evacuee Nightmare to Wartime Haven

At this time my mother worked in the canteen of Baddersley Colliery where she was the pastry cook....

Things Could Only Get Better: War in Monkgate, York

As a young woman of eighteen she lived in Monkgate, York with her family and came close to losing her life...

A Day to Remember, A GI Children's Party

GI children's Party My mother would often tell me about this incident during the Second World War: One...

Leominster Memories

Bateman's Buildings was where the Americans did something with cooking; my aunt was engaged to a...

The POWs and Us

Like so many families we were evacuated from the city to get us out of harms' way for the duration.I...

Birthday on the Base

Mum and Dad were invited to social events in Raydon and the boys would come to us fairly regularly. I...

Jean Preedy's War

I was eleven years old when the war started and was evacuated from Manchester to Oswaldtwistle. By the time...