Air Raids and Other Bombing

Bombed out of Yeovil

Bombed out of Yeovil...

Cadets

In the summer of 1942 at the age of 15, I was in the Army cadets on manoeuvres south of Salisbury in...

Air Raid on the Bristol Areplane Company at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol 1940

I was 13 and a pupil at Fonthill Road School, Southmead, Bristol situated in near vicinity of the Bristol...

Praying for the Convoys from Dover's Cliff Edge

I worked in the Dumpy Caves in Dover Castle where the plotting went on....

History in the Making

Father was on the railway and we moved to Birmingham in 1941... One night Dad said he would takeuson the...

A House with no roof

In January or February of 1941 or 1942 we were in the Anderson shelter in next door's garden at...

VE Day in a Cowshed in Germany

So we went to sleep on our bed boards on the floor of the cowshed, in the middle of the cows....

Control Room - a special night

On night when we were on duty on the switchboard, the overhead light seemed too bright to allow my friend...

A Night to Remember

On the night of heavy bombing in Leicester, I vividly remember there were lots of ATS around when...

German Bombers over North East

As I worked at Blackhall pit, I went down to the air raid shelter and after a while one of the men...

Look Out at the Castle

When I got my call up papers I was 18, but at the medical a doctor, who I had seen when I...

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

In 1941 I was home on leave from the Airforce in Carrickfergus, which was near to Belfast. However the...

Sheep Strike

As it got nearer I could see that it was a German plane, another one to tick off the list... I found...

Memories of Kilmarnock as a boy

I remember when a German fighter plane was shot down in Kilmarnock. At the end of the War, the Grand Hall...

Manchester Memories

My Auntie Jean worked in the munitions factory. She was very pregnant as were lots of women, so tney had to...

Riding Home

In 1940/41, when I was about 14 or 15, I was working at Hunts Cross Station kiosk, selling newspapers,...

Childhood

I lived with mum and dad in Surrey... My dad stayed at home as he was an air raid warden....

Water Baby

At the precise moment he appeared at the bottom of the garden, there was a loud explosion and so didn't...

Finding A Live Bomb Was A Trophy.

After the all clear we used to meet with other young boys and walk around the street picking up shrapnel...

A Night of Fear in 1940

The war started and my husband Reg got his call up papers to go to war, he said “you cannot live in...

In St John's Ambulance in Royston

When the sirens sounded in Royston it was my job to run to the Town Hall and go down to the cellar...

Experience of Bombing

I was fourteen years old when the war began and I lived in Luton. I went to work at Commers Cars in...

Machine gun raid on Pickering Park

I was listening to Blair on Radio Humberside this morning and a man came on talking about a German...

WW2 Childhood Recollections

I remember micky Mouse gas masks and playing in the air raid shelters. when the sirens went we were made to...

A Child's Vivid Memory

My twin brother and I were outside playing in the grass field when this Mosquito came over the house... My...

Dinha's blitz

1941:Due to heavy bombing I was invited to next door with mother and father... My mother said we were going...