Stories categorised in 'Germany'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Without doubt the most important crew member in a Bomber Command aircraft was the navigator; if you did not...
Lt Hutchinson had to take out a fighting patrol, to try and get a German prisoner, and he picked his trusty...
A short while after the incendiary bombs episode my friend Johnny Simpson and I were walking home very late...
Perhaps the first thing we noticed after gazing with awe at the Stearman aircraft on the “Line”...
My other four serving brothers were George, Royal Artillery, Jack, Royal Artillery, Joe, Army Fire Service...
The first vehicles to arrive were civil defence vans like Lance Corporal Jones’ butcher's van...
My mother's fierce indignation at ‘foreigners' taking over her beloved island flared out one...
The boy knelt with his back to his aunt on the wooden bench beside the table, fascinated by the frost...
The skid, a landing device, in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced through the floor of our glider,...
The ‘weights up to maximum’ was arrived at by taking the basic ‘tare’ weight of the...
In 1991 I accompanied George on a trip across Australia from Perth to Sidney in the Gipsy Moth to attend...
With the Germans having entered Paris by mid June, the family decided to go to the British Consul in St...
The road on either side was littered of course with abandoned vehicles and things upside down and so on and...
The ‘skid’ a landing device in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced threw the floor of...
Aunty Maria, Uncle Frank, Darinko, Lojzo and little Martin were in the house. We were chopping a tree down...
Hampden AE392 of 144 Squadron was shot down by Lüth off the North German coast. F/Lt Kingston, Sgt R....
The Russian P.O.Ws, hated by the Germans, had to survive on the rations they provided, which was less than...
The cemetery is on land given by the German nation to the British War Graves Commission. The ceremonies...
Our group was divided here, sixteen were ordered to remain at a bombed station, to be collected, the other...
A German NCO was sent ahead on a bicycle to make arrangements with the village Burgmeister for our intended...
My souvenir of that winter is a wooden cigarette case carved with a 1944 symbol on a reindeer scene, made...
The carrier vanishes After some training on Swordfish, grandfather was told that he and his fellow pilots...
First at Stalag VIII.B. at Lamsdorf Lower Silesia for about four months, then the new Luftwaffe controlled...
In the winter of 1942/1943 his division dug in outside of Stalingrad, where the most memorable of his...
Goodbye and God speed In an extract from Helen's diary for the night of 19 February, she wrote:...
So the shower house was very large and in constant daily use. On the day Tom was to be showered and...
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