Air Raids and Other Bombing

Trouble at Home

Albert lived with his wife and two young children in a bungalow at Portman Drive, Woodford Green, Essex......

Air Raid Warnings

My mother remembers being told that if the air raid siren went off while she and her sister were on their...

Safe

I was in Manchester about 1940 in the Fallowfield area. My father was working nights and we slept in the...

Growing Up

When war broke out I was at Ravensdale School till 1940,then when the syrens went in the night our mother...

German Plane Crashes 2

This crash was at North Stifford, near the old A13 in a field between Warren Terrace and the Ardale School...

Bombing of Guernsey Harbour 1940

of the machine guns and you could actually see planes flying over Town diving. That's all I remember of...

The First Warning

We were atthe allotments when it sounded, so we packed up and walked home which took twenty minutes. As we...

Sheffield Bombed

This is to do with the Second World War. Recollections from my mother Glady Barker about being in a theatre...

Saucepan Lids On Your Head!

Mrs Mabel Nicholas remembers being a young Mother with two small children during the bombing of Liverpool....

Surprise on Opening the Curtains

The story that my wife told me: One morning during the war when the Vicar first got up he opened his...

Bomb in Ball Green

Bomb in Ball Green...

Bombed Out

We heard a bomb come whistling down.My brother was buy the front door and I by the back . The blast from...

Air Raid

Travelling through London in uniform and complete with rifle, Dad was caught in an air-raid and took...

The Bombed Wedding

I was at St Margaret's Church for my friends wedding when a bomb landed and exploded outside the...

Incendiary Bomb

Incendiary Bomb...

Air Raid Warning Red

Widely scattered incidents occurred during the night of 27/28 July with bombs being dropped in rural areas...

Daylight Was A Constant Worry

Raids started to increase in frequency and length during 1940, and because of the Birches Green Estates...

A Caulkhead's War

Victorious RAF fighter pilots would give notice of their success by rolling their aircraft in a manoeuvre...

How the war came to Rural Devon.

One evacuee to Silverton like rural life so much that when his School returned to London he found his way...

Living with the war

A couple of times while we were at home and Mum was out shopping, bombs fell in town. I was helping my...

Daily Life During WW2

Another bomb landed at Carnon yard and damaged many of the boats there. They built a new road down to...

Air War over South East Kent - A Schoolboy's Memories (Part I)

My father also bought a house up on the East Cliff at Folkestone and we used to see a lot of planes...

Childhood Memories from Grovehill Road - Part 1

One was going to the bomber base at Lissett, and I think the other one was coming in to land at Leconfield,...

Bombs in Bradford 1940

The whistel ,or scream, as some people call it, of the bombs is ten times worse than the explosion, for...

A child's wartime memories

The island of Malta was awarded the George Cross By King George V1 on the 15th of April 1942....

V E Day Memories of Donald Robson (then 1686684 Leading Aircraftman Robson, RAF)

As we were the first British soldiers to enter the city I know I was the first person from Beverley to get...