Air Raids and Other Bombing

Eggs at Eastbourne

I was evacuated to Eastbourne, Portsmouth, Buxton, Crewe, Chelmsford and Atherston. The museum at...

They Really Did Bomb Our 'Chippy'

When the all clear was sounded we surfaced only to find that our beloved 'chippy' had been bombed...

Near Misses in Clayton

The Clayton area in Manchester was a target for the Luftwaffe because of the local chemical and steel...

Close Call with a Focke Wulf 190 in Brighton

A Focke Wulf 190 made a low pass across the park and dropped a 1000 pound bomb at a shallow angle. The...

Lights Over York

We used to live in a small village about three miles outside York called Huntington... York had quite a few...

Missing Home

This is the story of a Plymouth woman and her daughter who were evacuated from Plymouth to the small...

The Burcot Bomb

We went outside to see hundreds of incendiary bombs lighting up the countryside all the men in our lane...

A Sneak Raid in South East London

Later we learned that the second raider had tried to machine gun the gas works at Sydenham, and had dropped...

The wave of a Nazi pilot

As we dashed through the back door of the house, my father rushing ahead to open the door of the air raid...

Memories of my Mother during the War

An Amercian flag which has flown on the Capital in Washington DC is held in Nantwich Parish Church when it...

"No Windows, No Doors"

Soon the all clear went and we came up from the shelter and went back into the house. we'd been up for...

Doodlebugs and Parachutes

My father who was in the Royal Marines was posted to the Admiralty in London to guard Sir Winston Churchill...

A Grocer's Assistant Tale

Everybody had ration books and had to register with a Grocer and Butcher....

School Memories

The German bombing raids over Liverpool and the Wirral took place during my school days at West Kirby High...

A Wartime Memory from Bacup

It was just a German bomber, running on one engine, returning from Barrow-in-Furness, whose pilot, with two...

Battle of Britain Sunday

On that day waves of German planes came over from Dover and the Kent coast and I remember standing in the...

Bomb Damage in Birmingham

I remember the night the BSA factory was bombed....

World War 2 Story as told by Greta McDowell

The next morning we were transported in army lorries as evacuees to Bushmills County Antrim. Lily was...

A Daylight Raid on Darwen

I went to a small preparatory school in Darwen on the green, which occupied two big rooms on the first...

The Wave

As we dashed through the back door of the house, my father rushing ahead to open the door of the air raid...

Keeping the People Fed (A Grocers story)

Cheeses came whole with a Linen Rind which had to be stripped off, a horrible job. Our shop was in Filton,...

Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy -Part 2

What I saw all the glass from shop windows was blown out and Penryn's town clock face was all in bits...

The Baedecker Raids

I was the secretary to the Sections Officer for Number 7 area at Newmarket, Civil Engineers responsible for...

A Court Summons

We used to go to Craven Arms cinema on Sunday nights... As we were cycling out of Craven Arms we passed a...

Nurses Have A Narrow Escape

My schoolfriend Peg and I began nurse training in 1941 at a small and very busy hospital in North-East...

Mickey Mouse

I was a child during the War, living in East London with my parents, George and Marie Wittamore.I can't...