Air Raids and Other Bombing

V2 Rocket in Chelmsford 1944

We lived in Henry Road with our back garden backing onto Hoffman's factory and, although we did have a...

dropping like flares

One day my dad took us to a farm to stay out of the way of the bombings. My dad took us...

Machine Gun Terror

The sirens went early one afternoon and the planes were flying low. My mother started out to fetch me from...

The Flying Bomb

It was 1943; the Germans were bombing Sheffield almost every night. This particular day, Chippy Roberts, a...

Memories by Mrs Nan Wallace

I got transferred back to Airdrie and that's when all the ship yards were bombed at Clydebank... We...

Strafed at work by a loose cannon!

The story relates to my Grandfather, Archibald Patterson Little, who, early on morning, was working in a...

2nd World War, My Nan By Leah McGreary

Many thanks to Miss Karen Richards and to John Keane from Liverpool's Central Library....

A Wellington Bomb & Turpin's Surprise

My Dad was a Warden during the War and manned the telephones in the village during air raids....

Strafed by a loose cannon!

The story relates to my Grandfather, Archibald Patterson Little, who, early on morning, was working in a...

The daylight raider

Then at rooftop height a German ME109 fighter appeared strafing the area with its machine guns... At this...

Fireman Fred

My grandad, Fred Williams, was a firefighter in Middlesbrough during the war. It was just a lot of fun and...

A Sunderland flying boat seen in Guernsey

We were digging potatoes at the Creux Mahie, we could hear a terrific noise as if it was a plane coming out...

Last Supper

During the war my Grandfather used to work for the gas Board. My Mother worked as a Capstan lathe operator-...

Air raid messenger

I was returning from this particular call, when I found my assistant messenger and his bike down a bomb...

Canada House

Two nights earlier there had been two screaming bombs hit the area and the Matron evacuated everyone into...

Second Chance

Early on in the war, when I was 9 years old, our next door neighbour, her three children, my mother and I...

Jean's story

Jean Herbert: One Sunday lunch I remember being round my nana's house and I remember saying...

Grandpa's Air Raid Shelter

Dad was a miner at Wheal Jane and other mines... Dad built an underground air raid shelter in grandad's...

Disaster at Albion Way Shelter

I wasn't on duty as a firwoman when this happened but the shelter at Albion Way near Lewisham town...

Our Neighbours

Every night we used to go to bed in our deep dug Anderson shelter situated in the garden, but we were...

Lost in the Dark

Whilst sheltering, a fire watcher came down to the basement and told us that the roof was on fire and were...

An Interview with Jayne Stevenson by Hannah Mcninley by Year 8

Jayne Stevenson is 24 years of age and this is what she told us about the war.She had to cope well, she...

The brave pilot that saved many lives

Seconds later I heard the crash as it landed on the railway lines in the cutting close to Gravel Path...

Forty-eight People Killed In East Belfast on Easter Tuesday

In Westburn Street near Stanley College in Belfast there were forty-eight people killed during the second...

The Beginning and the End of the War.

I remember coming out of St. Aulkmunds Church in Derby one day when I was about 10 years old. I remember a...

A Lucky Pot-shot at St Ives

My father and grandfather were in the bay in a rowing boat, opposite the gasometer, rowing out to sea, when...