Sweden

Escape From Denmark

On the 27th April Bills log shows that he and the crew had their first flight at No 2 Multi Engine Training...

Journey of Escape in 1940

With the Germans having entered Paris by mid June, the family decided to go to the British Consul in St...

Secret Mission To Fly Twelve Bristol Blenheims To Finland

This made the mission even more dangerous, as the R.A.F. would quite likely suffer an attack in an aircraft...

Fighting in Finland, France and Burma: Part I - With the Finns

We went to Norway by steamer in a convoy, then by train to Finland and finally were in barracks at Lapua,...

The End of the War in Sweden for a German Soldier Prisoner

After his extraordinary escape from Norway across the boarder to Sweden, Sugata was put into a Swedish...

The War In Norway And Sweden, Part One

After arriving in Plymouth again and being repaired, we went to cruise the North Atlantic again, and whilst...

The War In Norway And Sweden, Part Two

We flew up and finally climbed above the height of the German fighter planes from northern Norway, up...

Little Scandinavia Memories of Sweden, Denmark and Norway Streets

At the top of Norway and Sweden Streets was a large field known as Fosters or Ropers....

The Grossman Wittgenstein Story

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

Mosquito to Sweden

George met me outside the ops room, "it's all right Robby we are going to Sweden". "What,...

The Great (Danish) Escape.

My war didn't really start until 9th April 1940 when the German army invaded Denmark where I lived on a...

Fleeing from norway to Sweden

I was 18 years old when my dad got a letter saying we all needed to flee to Sweden... We lived in...