Air Raids and Other Bombing

Lucky Escape!

Dad was working in the Aux Fire Brigade in Rochdale and then got transfered to Manchester when the bombing...

Plane Crash on the family farm.

A Lancaster, coming back from bombing Germany, crashed on the farm, and Stan saw the plane come down......

German's or Rats

The ARP's were shouting for us to get down into the cellars under Stoke market and we all began to rush...

the firemans ladder

the firemans ladder...

Plane spotting

During the war I was a pupil at Balshaw's Grammar school Leyland... The German plane veered away from...

"Bombs Away"

I had a fantastic time listening to war stories told by some war veterans from the Cheshire Regiment. My...

Memories

Me and Sister worked in a factory making gun sights in the day and as a street warden on some evenings...

Air raid shelters

The house we lived in, in Walton lane, opposite anfield cemetery gates, as was common at the back at the...

Up On the Roof

In the bombing he had scary moments... The night Coventry was bombed incendiaries in the garden and on the...

The story of the Tree

The Germans used to regularly come to try to bomb Crewe. They couldn't get near Crewe for barrage...

Dogfight between Spitfire and Messerschmitt

We could also hear the guns of the spitfire firing at the Messerschmitt The Messerschmitt started smoking,...

TUFFLEY WAR STORY

I was about 8 years old and we were living in Tuffley, Gloucester... The German planes would be going over...

Mr Little

One Wednesday morning the bombers went across the BAWA Club and on to Filton where they hit the shelters......

Bombs dropping on Railway Bridge

As we approached the Central Cinema, a German aircraft which had just dropped two bombs on the A1 bridge of...

Ransom and Marls factory

"Ransom and Marls" was a ball baring factory in Newark, because they were working for the war...

War was kind of fun!

My friends and I would look for bomb craters. We would pick up bullet heads and sometimes half a bomb,...

Evacuated at 12

I was bombed out in Bethnal Green, London. Then we got bombed there, so we came back to London again....

My Very Earliest Memory.

I can distinctly remember being taken by my parents to the recreation ground at the top of Killigrew Road....

Lucky Escape

On its return trip and just before war was officially declared the boat was sunk by a German submarine. A...

Little German Girl

Little German Girl...

Dibbins is hit by Incendery Bomb

The office at Dibbens was closed after being hit by incendiaries and we were set up in a nice house in...

Churchill, Eisenhower and Monty in the backgarden!

Churchill, Eisenhower and Monty in the backgarden. One morning they rehearsed gun fire and one of the other...

Bombing

They used to bomb us every night and the bombing was so bad we used to have to come home and risk...

Five children in the Family

There were five children in my family. My twin sister went into the WAFS... I worked at Bywaters, Kings...

Dogfight high over Edinburgh

He was in charge of the battery at Inchkeith, and it was this position that brought down the first German...

Night Raid

I started to work for Brittan Pash in Market Road in 1941, working on farm equipment with a man named Ernie...