The water froze around their anti - aircraft gun . His final trainer plane was an American A16, which flew...
I returned to England for 1 year and then went back to America and had 2 more children and then a daughter...
My father was in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander, but as he was an architect he was assigned to an...
Left Montreal 9.30 for New York, arriving midnight, parted company with Mrs. Hawkeswood, Mrs. McKinsey and...
My mother, who lived outside of Philadelphia, close to where she had been born, always kept a set of...
Transferred to Washington, British Admiralty Maintenance & Supply Representative's Signal...
He and his brother, my uncle Thornton, were going to watch a Marx Brother's matinee that afternoon. She...
I couldn't go over to England on his return therefore I made an application and booked a passage across...
My Grandpa was a farm boy from rural Michigan and became a pilot in WWII. Back in Michigan, he checked out...
There were six hundred brides, and two hundred and fifty children on the boat... When we came into the...
My father, Sidney Toone joined the Royal Navy in 1940, and after initial training at HMS Ganges, HMS Drake,...
It was a very patriotic time, I was younger than Russ. They formed as junior air raid wardens and we would...
I am in the process of setting up a web site which has various stories and information about 5BFTS in...
One day, one of Grandma's friends from Brownies, Hi, was gone... Grandma and her friends have never...
We did not know any thing about the war but i left Jamaica to go to America to work on the war...
Niagra Falls 1945. My mother says this was taken at Niagra Falls as she can remember he went there; he...
USS Mackenzie GULF OF GAETA 1944...