Air Raids and Other Bombing

Memories World War Two at Wyke Regis

So with the Weymouth bay and harbour, the Portland harbour and the Torpedo factory, the area was of great...

A Six Year Old's Memories

We were all got up ready to go, god knows where, up until then we had never been out of the London...

Liverpool May Blitz and some miracles, 1941

I had just turned 18 in the summer of 1940 and was working as a junior Civil Servant in the Public Trustee...

Machine-Gunned on Swanage Beach

It was a lovely place to be, and in the fateful August of 1942 that all Swanage people remember we shared...

Alan French: War Baby: Interview. (Amended.) Part one.

My war time experiences were spent in Abbot's Langley and Holloway.I have got a feint memory of my...

West Ham War Years - Young Person's View

Several hundred people bombed out of their homes in the Tidal Basin area of the borough were being housed...

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

'I had my Obituary in the National Press

On the day I went back, my Aunty tied my hair back with a bright blue ribbon; my mother said she did...

Memories of the War in Aylesbury

My mothers brother and wife lived in Stockwell, London with two children Alf and June. Air Raids I once...

Final Years -Part Three

The noise was tremendous; anti-aircraft guns blasting shells into the sky, the whistle of bombs then their...

Why the 'Y' Service?

Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...

rene's war

But my most horrific moment came when our friend ‘Big Bill’ Piercy , a Merchant Navy Officer ,...

A Wartime Boy in Penarth

The prominent position of Penarth, overlooking Cardiff Docks and the Steelworks, meant the town became one...

Ossett (W.Y.) in the War - 1939 - 1945

The line of ten high explosive bombs that landed in Ossett landed between the houses. 1 The King George VI...

WW2-Life in Kent

An old rotten Oak was dug out, following a great deal of chopping and rotten chips all over the garden......

Lil's Memoirs

Nearly 17 years of age, I was then working in the Head Office of City and West End Laundry, in New Kent...

The Crater - a childhood recollection by Edwin Smith

He was soon proved correct, when a short time later they felt unusually soft ground beneath their feet, and...

The Catastrophe of Coventry

About mid-day with the AFS still fighting the burning docks at Limehouse, an Army officer, Police officer...

The Missing Bomb

As he listened to the crump of exploding bombs and the sharper crack of anti-aircraft guns Jim found...

The War at Home

I cannot say rest easily or peacefully because the fear of a bomb dropping on us was always with us and the...

Weymouth War Memories

Born in Weymouth Dorset, I was just a young boy at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, but it...

My First Memory

The ‘Doodlebugs’ — flying bombs started in 1944... At my brother's school in...

Memories of the Norwich Fire Service

To start with I worked in the office at the fire station which wasn't very different from the Norwich...

Friends Reunited with Memories of Air Raids on Norwich

Edna Gray and Sheila Rayner were old school friends in Norwich. For Christmas both Sheila and Edna recalled...

Shelter Stories

Our first instruction regarding safety in case of a raid was to get under our desk, and from this safe...

A Leicestershire Schoolgirl's War

I was still at the Church of England Junior School in Wigston Magna and walked approximately four miles...