Air Raids and Other Bombing

When the war was Declared.

At this time the A.R.P. was functioning and I remember being asked to take a message to the local station...

My Mum.

When she heard the whistle Mum would put on her civilian tin hat, which was pretty useless as it was made...

They were machine-gunning us!

We had to cross the lawn to get to the air raid shelter, and I was standing in the porch waiting to...

Doodlebugs

One early summers evening in 1944, Friday about 5pm, me and my grandfather were looking after the rabbits...

Munitions work - 100 yard sprint and strafed in the street

Winnie was called-up to work in a munitions factory a bus ride from her home in Croydon. On the walk home...

London Colney (2) - seeing planes and VE Day

It was coming back home and got caught up in a German raid and got shot down....

Air raids in Leicester

By the time I was about ten Leicester had been bombed, probably en route to Coventry. When the sirens would...

Low Flying Aircraft in Moston

One Sunday evening, my Gran and I were at Corwen Avenue Mission and the air raid siren went off. They said...

My Brother Pushed a Barrage Balloon Away From Our House

We weren't hit again in Hartlepool, but my sister Sheila, four years older than me, was a student in...

Mrs. Naylor's Story

Mrs Naylor travelled in a pram, and her Mum travelled on the double decker buses, which were painted blue...

Churchill

There'd be no fascination at the sight Of wounded houses, facades torn away, Showing a bedstead,...

A German Bombing Raid

Apparently the camouflage of the factory and a dummy factory built a mile away, were not successes, the...

Edmonton Gets Bombed

A bomb hit the cinema in Edmonton - the Alcazar, and blew it to pieces....

A Downed pilot

They, the Germans, were tring to blow up the King George reservoirs at Edmontion east london. My mother...

Shipped around the country [evacuee]

My parents thought this would be a safe area but suddenly hearing ther rattle of machine gun fire, I dived...

THE WHOLE WORLD IN FLAMES (Wrenbury Remembers P.2)

Our minds are at this time full of the memories of friends and comrades lost by bombs at home and bullet on...

My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part II: Whissendine's Searchlight Unit and Prisoner of War Camp)

Whissendine lies approximately 4 miles from R.A.F. Cottesmore, a key R.A.F. and U.S.A. base during the...

Evacuated to Oxford

I remember standing on top of an air raid shelter watching the German bombers fly over and dog fights in...

Near to the Biggest Village Store in the World

During that time the Army had three searchlights, 2 small and one large one stationed on the recreation...

Are the planes playing?

Later on when the sirens were a bit more organised as plane flew across from France they would relay the...

Military Police Work - German Hospital Ship

We found that we had to escort German Nurses from a captured hospital ship down the gangway and take them...

Pelted with chewing gum not grenades!

A bus or bicycle would pass every ten minutes and a car every three hours due to the lack of petrol......

Allied Fire

It turned out that he didn't come back, he went straight to Burnaston and landed because the sergeant...

Destruction Of An Air-Raid Shelter

We heard a very heavy thud, and all the kitchen bits were thrown into the air, it was only when the ARP...

A Schoolgirl in Derby

I remember a bomb falling in the middle of Chaddesden Park. It was aiming for the railway sidings but...

Worcestershire memories of a young person

The Mecco factory in Worcester produced ammunition during the war, and in August 1940 the Germans dropped a...