Air Raids and Other Bombing

Incendiary Bombs at Lea Village

For some reason the Luftwaffe decide to drop incendiary bombs across the school and our field, fortunately...

Wartime memories of Bedford and Turvey

Bombs over Torquay

Sitting with my two younger sisters on our local beach, Maidencombe, Torbay, we were suddenly aware of a...

Missed, but only just

It was quite common for mum and dad and the rest of us to stand in our garden in Felixstowe Road Ipswich...

When the boys went away

Heartbreak Next Door

I was 13 years old on the day Vauxhall was bombed and living in Farley Avenue, Luton. I had not gone to...

Farming Life at St Columb

My mother said we were directly in line with St Eval airfield and the dummy aerodrome set up to confuse the...

A Boy at Bovington Army Camp, Dorset

We lived in army barracks – a wooden house – at Bovington, just off King George V Road where T...

The Other Side of A German

The German bombers flight path went over the house where we lived, they used the River Severn for direction...

My war childhood in Glasgow

I lived in Clarkston near Glasgow, but I remember the German bombing raids on Clydeside shipyard, from 1942...

Aberdeen raided

My most vivid memory was in 1942 when Hall Russell Shipyard was bombed....

Siren suits and sweet rations - a 14 year old's war

One Sunday night we were in the house and never heard the sirens - we wore ear plugs to drown out the...

My War: 607 Squadron

Albert worked in an engineering factory producing Rolls Royce engines for spitfires... At 19 Albert was...

Albert Banning — Delayed Bomb in Fawkham

One bomb fell across the road from us, and another into the garden, blowing out all the windows including...

A Fly on the Ceiling

She was in the pictures in 1941, in the Regent Cinema in Castle Street, Bristol when Lord Haw Haw gave one...

Air Raids on Aberdeen

The night of the Aberdeen Blitz I was on my way home to Bannermill Street after the dancing at Locarno in...

Where is the Missing Bomb?

Later I was told that the Royal County Theatre had been bombed which was on Midland Road very near the...

School days at the County School and Long Road School

It was always said that the German bombers had been told to look out for the Newmarket Road cemetery and...

Saving Scotty

It was a cold, dark night and I sat shivering, still half asleep on the edge of my bed as my mother...

The Bombing of our Sweet Shop

My Mother was walking me to school along Rosamund Road; we were going to Goldington Road Infants School. It...

The Near Miss

My sister Joan and I had each been given a doll; this was an event in itself as money was hard to...

Hollesley

These crashed aircraft were a great source of fun for us, once the airforce had removed all the equipment...

British Soldiers Staying in Dublin

In our village they made Guinness and malt whiskey in the brewery across the street. When my boy was...

Colleen's story

I lived in the North of England in an Elizabethan house, with my mother, father and my brother... One day...

With The Home Guard in East Cowes and Anglesey

We saw German Stukas flying back from a raid on Portsmouth and they flew at low level right under the guns...

The bombing of my school in Catford

That day, myself and the other lower school children were let out early as the older children were going to...