When I was about 10 years old and living near Holme Mills on the River Ivel, there were Italian Prisoners...
My earliest memory is “Doodle-Bugs” droning over our house at Woodbridge, the siren blaring...
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They came round in a truck to take us up to Raydon aerodrome and they'd deck a hangar out with...
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There were over 2000 US soldiers at Ludlow racecourse and they used to take the local children up in the...
Until then my mother had worn lyle type stockings or dyed her legs ..... In forcing the stockings into the...
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One morning we were told that there was a concert on at Mission Hall, Adalaide Street... I enjoyed singing...
He told me that he and his French compatriots would go hunting rabbits around Newcastle-upon-Tyne and make...
Sutton Road ran parallel to Franchise Street and convoys of British troops and equipment went down there......
This changed with the arrival of the American 82nd Airborne Regiment who occupied Moyola Park Estate. The...
"My twin sister married a GI on a freezing January day, at the synagogue on the Bristol Road... But my...
The was a couple of German POW's who worked on the farm, and they were very nice and friendly —...
We lost touch a few years after the war but managed to trace him and just recently the daughter of one of...
My father worked as a farm labourer a reserved occupation, there was a prisoner of war camp near the...
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During the second world war I was in the Penkhull homes... We were all well fed in Penkhull homes but we...
Annie was 8 years old in Clogher, County Tyrone when a flat-bed truck passed with GI's at the bottom of...
At one time they were putting telphone lines up along the Wilton Road; they had coffee and donuts which...
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My wife told me that one day a German airman had been captured by the locals at S. Ockendon railway...
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