Air Raids and Other Bombing

War was fun!

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

The Scene at the Station.

My dad was in the army, out in Belgium, during the war. I was about three and a half and I remember...

Air Raids=Chocolate

I used to look forward to the air raids, because every time we had to go down to the shelter we were...

Raining Landmines

We lived in Corporation Road, Birkenhead and I was only three when the war started, my mum was carrying me...

A Daytime Raid - 1940

The planes were probably Dorniers or Stukas they were the ones normally used to dive-bomb the French...

A lucky escape

Oh my God!" as the plane dropped its bombs. It dropped the first bomb to fall on Colchester at two...

Wartime in Rural Shropshire

After a bombing raid on Liverpool enemy aircraft on the way back to Germany, dropped an incendiary bomb in...

Portsmouth Guildhall

I can remember the night Portsmouth Guildhall was on fire... We were going to Victoria Barrucks to get the...

“Put that Light out”

One day we were all in the shelter in the garden and there was an air raid and we heard a noise...

The Blackout

I was an only child, we had Anderson Shelters in the back garden which we used to go in when the sirens...

Raining Landmines

We lived in Corporation Road, Birkenhead and I was only three when the war started, my mum was carrying me...

They'll steal anything in Port Glasgow!

They'll steal anything in Port Glasgow. A parachute mine was dropped during an air raid and landed...

Petrol Dump Attack

I was born in 1939 and I remember the attack on the Potton Petrol Dump, between Sandy and Potton. A string...

Blowin in the Wind

I was stationed on the Isle of Wight in the army... A friend had just finished his guard duty and asked me...

Saved by Chores

Just before my husband joined the army, he wanted to go to a dance... He later found out that the church...

"Neat bit of parking"

I have a very vivid memory, as a boy, of the aftermath of an air raid... Imagine our amazement, when we saw...

Dead Dog

My nan lived in the east end of London,she had an air-raid shelter at the bottom of the garden. After the...

Bombs in the park

They lived near a park and one evening she went for a walk with her parents and older sister....

What my parents did in ww2

My fatherwas a Mechanical Engineer and worked for Adlam's of Bristol, his job was making sure that the...

Re: Sayings

When the Americans came they were stationed at Scampton near Lincoln. They came regularly into Lincoln to...

Cinema bombs

I was at the cinema. The screen reported that an air raid was on, and people should leave the cinema....

Allen West's bombed

While working at Allen West, Lewes Road, a German plane dropped its bombs....

Blackout Curtains

I can remember making an outfit from the blackout curtains after the war. It was a two-piece skirt and top....

Dance and Disaster

Just before my husband joined the army, he wanted to go to a dance... He later found out that the church...

ATS, Hull

Hull was badly bombed during the war and they used to say that if a bomb was meant for you you would...

Bomb damage in Walton Vale

My mum took me back to see our old house and we saw that the windows were swinging on their frames through...