Air Raids and Other Bombing

Blackout Memory

All house windows in our street had thick curtains of a black material, which were drawn as soon as it got...

Black out and other precautions

Dad was an air raid warden and then a fire man at Liverpool Docks... All our boy friends were Air Gadets or...

In the Salvation Army Hall

I can remember being at the Salvation Army hall, and when there was a raid, we all used to shelter under...

The Air Raid Shelters Under the Arches of Kew Bridge

We were on the Middlesex bank, and went as a family under the arches, all of us including most people who...

Whitehall Cinema Bombing in East Grinstead

While I was at the fair, all my friends were in the cheap seats watching a film at the cinema, and a...

Two Sides of the Coin. A True Story. The Year 1941

The Year 1941 by Eileen Barker. We were taking a walk over Earlswood Common My two little nieces and I,...

Panic as Local School Feared to Have Been Hit

Unfortunately, my dad was working so he couldn't help my mother and me. the church had been hit by a...

Gunfire

One of the favorites as the war progressed was the hunt to increase our schrappnel collections, small...

Various Memories of Middlesex

I lived in Hayes in Middlesex, and worked at the EMI factory there. My Dad worked at Fairey Aviation, and...

Family Pet

Following another raid, my mother was peering into a crater across the road from our house when our mongrel...

German Bail-Out Over Bramford Road, Ipswich.

German Bail-Out Over Bramford Road, Ipswich. Bombs and incendiary devices didn't always go off, and...

Myrtle Road's Bouncing Bomb

It bounced from Alan Road to Myrtle Road, where it exploded in an apple orchard....

Burmantofts During an Air Raid

In the war our mum used to send photos of my sister and I to dad to see how we were and...

Garden Bombing

In 1944 I was child of 11 years, on February 23 rd our family were all at home in Hampshire when the...

A Near Escape

Raiders often off-loaded bombs on return from raids elsewhere from a great height in the hope of hitting...

Morrison Shelter and More

I can remember the Morrison Shelter taking up all the dining kitchen, mum being very claustraphobic so it...

Saved By The Fridge

So my Dad unplugged the fridge and we all huddled together inside. Nobody could believe we had survived...

The Bombing of Guernsey Harbour -Kaye Le Cheminant

When we came out to walk home through ankle deep broken glass and masonry, mother was very distressed to...

My first Recollection of WW2

I was born in April 1940 and my first recollection of WW2 was when I heard my father say, outside our...

Unreported Bombing Raid

I heard a loud noise near Teddington lock, and saw a spiral of smoke, a stick of bombs across the lock, and...

Bombing the Transporter Bridge

In the early years of the Second World War a single German bomber was making its way back to Germany after...

War Memories of Air-Raid Shelters

Mr.Steed lived in a terraced house with no back garden so he had to go in an air raid shelter. The airraid...

Machine-Gunning of Civilians

When the air raids were at their worst I was at school in Halesowen in Worcestershire... It was common...

Dog Fight at the End of the War

The enemy would come over in Messerscmitts and Stukas and our lads used to try and chase them away. I could...

Waltzing Matilda

I remember there being lots of barrage balloons near where I lived and one in particular which was always...

Wellington

Mother Margaret and father George senior, grandmother Emily and grandfather Wellington, called after the...