United States of America

My Life My War - Chapter 11a

Jack Hylton my buddy from Bremerton was still with us, and together we went ashore on our first liberty......

Experiences Visiting USA in 1940

Their enthusiasm s well as their bedazzeled eyes, stems from the fact that Friday night, the Brockleys...

Johnny Stinger's Story

He married my Mum in 1944 at St. Mark's Church Preston, I have an older brother called Eddie after my...

Minesweeping with the Wavy Navy

In Seattle, re-united with Fred Marley and we learned that we were to stand by during the construction of,...

The Sinking of the Empire Mica - Dougie Davidson MBE,MN

The crew were mainly from the Bristol and Falmouth Pools and I recollect that the Bristol lads were, Dougie...

Its A Hard Life

Our battery comprised 350 officers and men and all our equipment, trucks and ack ack guns sailed from...

Joining the D.E.M.S.

Very many years later in peacetime, my wife and I were on holiday on the Isle of Wight, we were up on...

Ron's Reminiscences

However, in January 1943 I was finally given that precious document, the C.O.R. so hot foot off I went to...

Evacuated to North America

My memories of Lyme in the early days of the war were of soldiers training on the beach, of waves...

N Ireland rationing from a Southerner's Perspective

But you see, we were in Northern Ireland and whilst we were rationed in the same way they were rationed in...

War Brides

While waiting for his BYMS to be built, he was billeted at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in Manhattan where...

Joan Pankhurst goes to the USA,1940-43

Our convoy sailed out across the Atlantic and we headed toward Greenland to avoid enemy U-boats, passing...

Letters home from an R.A.F. Officer - 1

About every other weekend we spend the weekend at either Palm Beach or Miami, or lease at one or other of...

Winged Chariots -Part 4: The Chairman Remembers

At initial Training Wing I was lucky enough to be at New Clare and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge, where...

The Grossman Wittgenstein Story

The wellknown Austrian jewish author, dramatist publisher Stefan Grossmann married my grandmother´s...

Winged Chariots -Part 3: A mixed blessing

Back in Britain, Campbell went to an Advanced Flying Training Unit at Peterborough, then to Montrose on a...

Fred's Journey, Part 4: Leaving the POW camp in Japan

However I managed to take a pair of Wies binoculars home, which my dad just gave to his old mate, a bookie!...

Evacuated to America and Back Again!

My two sisters, Anne and Alison, were sent to a local nursery school called Peter Pan and the story goes...

An NCO’s war in the RAF

In Canada I was based at Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, a pilot training base for the Canadian and the Royal Air...

Wartime Hollywood Glamour

A group of them went to Arizona. They arrived at Phoenix – the capital of Arizona - and went to the...

Merchant Navy Story

The entire course was posted to another armed merchant vessel which unfortunately was sunk on its first...

The Gold Stars

Riding on the school bus home during the week, my friends and I watched gold and silver stars going up in...

To Pick Up a Liberty Ship

We were put into hotels and given $2-3 a day for food and had the freedom of New York... The parts of...

American Airman with Deep English Roots Then and Now

The preparation for war left no time for looking for English cousins except for two days with a related...

Birmingham to Bronxville

We travelled on HMS Britannic in a party of about 12 watched over by Mrs Pope wife of the Captain - Captain...

As Seen from the USA

He was stationed at Peyote Texas which was out in the middle of no where, it was one of the B17 bases...