South America

Coming Home

We flew in a formation of 40 Mosquitos to attack German shipping in Porsgrunn Harbour in Norway. Ron was...

HMS Wastwater

The U-boat was intercepted and boarded by HMCS Niagara and HMS Burwell, HMS Wastwater assisted with other...

Life in the Services 1939-46, Chapter 3

All the girls told us we were going to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. After about ten days steaming Westward we...

H.M.S.Victorious, A Sailor's Diary

Arrived at Greenock on September 29th.New orders to proceed to Liverpool... March 8th leave Liverpool for...

Round the World at Government Expence Chapter 5: Training with the RAF and by Boat to New Zealand via Panama Canal

Next I was sent to 11 EFTS, a Pre AFU unit at Scone, a small village near Perth in Scotland, where we...

Serving in the Netherlands Merchant Navy during the war by Nicolas Wensveen

While in London, I was trained as a Gunnery Offcier by the Royal Navy. Because the Channel was too tricky,...

Experience in Guiana

During the war an agreement was signed between Britain and America to least a portion of land at Atkinson...

Troopship #4

After we left some rough seas in the ATLANTIC with many girls experiencing becoming sea sick, we landed in...

My War Service During my Time on the Fleet Aircraft Carrier “Victorious”

His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the...

German Spy/Agent/Ambassador in Montevideo

Captain Langsdorff is on the left in the photograph of the German officers... Uraguay was a neutral country...

Pikes Peak or Bust

On the way back from church we were still singing, not hymns, but German marching songs like “Auf der...

Torpedoed in the Atlantic

All set with Brazilian passport with which to leave the country and a British one with which to enter...

MY JEWISH FRIEND

MY FATHER WAS A MEDICINE DOCTOR IN THE BACKLANDS OF A LITLLE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA.HE HAD A LABORATORY FOR...

The Last Soldier and His Son

The last soldier is the one that faced the Monster First.He knows all his details,the downcraked faces,the...

Fashion Models to South America

During WW2 she was one of a group of fashion models who were taken in a convoy to South America - Buenos...