Air Raids and Other Bombing

Messenger-boy for the ARP

I discovered I was a colleague of James, who was in D District, whose HQ was in the first floor of Antrim...

Wartime in South Cheshire

I was nine years old when the war started and living at Wrenbury Hall Farm with my parents and three elder...

Childhood in Golborne

A derelict factory in Golborne had become the site. I lived not far from the East Lancashire Road, and once...

Air Raid Warden in Kettering

I lived with my parents on Rockingham Road in Kettering and one day a bomb dropped on a nearby bungalow and...

The Crater in the Ladden Brook and Flying Potatoes

During the early spring of 1941, a high explosive bomb dropped from a German plane into the Ladden Brook...

ENEMY ACTION - bombing, big rock, table not much protection.

I heard the bombing at Tregeseal and I was very much aware of the bombs dropped between Lower Trewellard...

The Night of the Fireflies

I remember so well that the hedgerows were bright with fireflies so beautiful, and suddenly I hit something...

An incendiary bomb dropped down our bedroom chimney!

I remember a rather funny incident when we had an incendiary bomb down one of our bedroom chimneys. 4 By...

On The Edge Of A Crater

My Mum Ehtel, my sister Kathleen and I were living at 50 Mellors Road, Wallington, Surrey. I managed to...

Dad's WW2 Memories

One day I was looking out of my bedroom window, and to my amazement watched as a four-engine American...

Flying Bombs Over Hailsham

My own close encounter came towards the end of the flying bomb era....

Factory Bombing

On one side of us was Samuel Jones, the paper mills and the other side, a mile away was the peanut factory,...

Violet Fallowes' Story

We had to transport the officers around and drive at night to different searchlight batteries in the...

Wrong side of the curtains!

When the sirens sounded we decided to step out a bit to get back to the digs, but we had not gone...

Air Raid Precautions

I was at St Simons Church Hall, which happened to be right opposite from where my Aunt and Uncle lived and...

Bombed Out

I remember hearing screams as the bombs were falling, but my eldest sister who was eight years older than...

Early Days of the War

However, along with three friends, we dug the trench in our back garden to accommodate the Anderson...

Fireworks over Tilbury

As the Germans came back they released their bombs, hitting all along the docks and Tilbury houses... I...

Anklam Bombings

The bombs nearly wiped out the centre of Anklam, turning the church steeple into a torch, destroying 2...

Bombs in Camberley

Once I was walking along Princes Street past Camberley School, when I heard a bomb coming overhead......

War work

Sirens in the daytime meant we would be looking out for incendiary bombs and even did fire watching on the...

Everyday Life during WW2

Being near Beverley Barracks and Hull there were a lot of German planes about. Many evacuees came from Hull...

Polishing Live Ammunition!

I took one piece of ammunition home and was polishing it on a lathe at Acro's... In 1945 I was...

Shirley Lazerus — A Scare in Dover

In October of 1941 my I was living in Newcastle, my aunt had moved me there from Dover to escape the threat...

Time Bomb

There was a terrific bang, the bomb crashed into Tabet St. over the road from our street, Beamish street,...

Shelters, Blackouts and the End of the War

We had an Anderson Shelter and my mum and dad made us go there. My mum and dad would stay in to...