Air Raids and Other Bombing

Morrison Shelter Birth 19.3.1944

Morrison Shelter Birth. The war was on and we had a Morrison Shelter in our front room....

A four year old's memory.

Later on they fitted the cellar out with corrugated iron and we hid in there. I remember my sister Janet...

The first time my mother heard me swear

Albans Catholic High School in Ipswich on behalf of Michael Henderson; and has been added to the site with...

A Broken nose on Liberation Day

On Liberation Day, I went into town, well and truly, and I had a broken nose over it... We stood on the...

Safer in Scotland !

As a young child living in London, I remember my father saying to my mother that it would be safer in...

Air raids at school

I remember blackouts, air raid shelters and baffle walls... I went on my National Service in West Kirby,...

Landmine on church spire

As kids in Finchley, North London we saw a landmine on a parachute. It floated down and landed on the...

The War In Oldham

We lived near an ammunition factory and the Germans were trying to find the factory!.. I remember seeing...

Air raid on Chelmsford

There was a big massive bang as a phosphorus bomb went off under the kitchen and all the fumes came up......

Unhappy Landing

65990 Sergant Pilot Peter Freer died in the air defending London from the German bombers on 11th May 1941,...

Mom in a Pram

During one of the night time bombings in Birmingham approximately 1940 or 1941 my mom, brother and myself...

Bomb Disposal in Birmingham

My father featured on a photograph with Charlie Hubbard diffusing 500 lb. bombs on Thursday June 6, 1946 at...

Memories of the Town Moor

I remember, on the Town Moor there was Rocket Launching Guns that fired 12 rockets each at any enemy...

Big Mistake Becoming a Bevan Boy

When I was 18 I became a Bevan Boy....

1937

His wheelchair spun around, it had been hit by shrapnel from a bomb. He was still removing shrapnel from...

When my house was bombed.

When my house was bombed....

Elderberries for Raisins

We lived on Werrington Estate in the Lodge owned by Commander A M Williams....

Italy

The German's surrender in Italy — I return to Foggia... I can get by in Italian, one day the...

Unexpected Visitor

In 1943 I was at home in Moira when the sirens wents... Rushing out to look I saw a German plane flying...

German efficiency

It was a reconnaissance plane photographing the crowd leaving the local football match. As there were ship...

School Days During the War

I was about 9, helping the milkman deliver his round during the summer holidays. When I was at the bottom...

VE Day

On VE Day I was at Portland and there was big celcbrations. When the war really finished I went up to...

I can't take much more of this!

I remember a neighbour two doors away who was a warden. He must have kicked an incendiary bomb - he blew...

Lucky Escape

My eldest sister was married and I was the youngest child in our family, aged seven. My eldest sister is 90...

machine gun madness

In the Meadows area of Nottingham there was a machine gun tower. It was regularly fired at and in turn...

Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt2

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