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James Kenna - The Story of A Prisoner of Waricon for Story with photo

Stalag IVB, along with its various surrounding working camps, was eventually liberated by the Russians in...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 18a

Telling me to keep a sharp lookout for possible signs of the enemy trying to retake the village Captain...

Thoroughly Adaptable Milly - Part Two

They were still in Courtrai for Christmas 1944: Milly remembered collecting sugar from the orderlies to...

The Post Mortem - A Lighter Anecdoteicon for Story with photo

Their intercommunication was so limited that they could not discuss the prospect of meeting their Russian...

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My Call-Up -Part 3

Trooper Wright was well pleased his efforts had won the day not just for me, but had put one over on the...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 4 - Capture

On the way out we had to walk through the Inspector's office so Alf said, “Go on, Dick, you tell...

Just Another Story - Chapter 5: Stalag Luft 1XC Kraysburg

The food we were served was appalling but we were informed that it was the same as that served to...

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot: A POW in Germany

He can speak French, Spanish, Italian, German and at the moment is starting on Russian. At the Court of...

Prisoner of War

We were on Crete for quite a while before the Germans moved us, then we went to Greece and were there for...

25 July 1944: Group 6 Canadian Squadron 431 - and Life as a POW

Unfortunately this goon did not understand much English and called for a senior officer who took up the...

Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE Part 3

Violette became particularly friendly with Solange, whilst Lilian was befriended by Renee Corjon. Then on...

A Midsummer's Night Dip in the Baltic Chapter 1

Foreword This is the account of the fate of one Avro Lancaster of No.57 Squadron, dispatched to drop mines...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 5

So the Colonel promised me that he was going to arrange for a jeep to take us to the next sector, which...

Memories of My Life Born in 1918 to being a Soldier in the Second World War Part 11

I had been talking to some Redcaps, the Military Police, at the High Court at Dusseldorf and they told me...

A FootSloggers Story: 1st Buckinhamshire Battalion in Normandy

I had often thought of my old colleagues in C Company 1st Bucks who had landed on the Beaches on D-Day 6th...

Royal Dragoons and the German Retreat in Lower Saxony

From Langenbrugge we could look down on the village of Bodenteich in the distance 5 k away, and could see...

N1408 and the Attack on Oil Refineries at Hanover, 18/19th May1940icon for Story with photo

It was with some excitement and anxiety that the crews of the aircraft were instructed to assemble at the...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 5

I really wasn't believing I was home until we were going between where we landed at Wing to Amersham...

Poems from a P.O.W. in Germany

Unwanted at home by Stalin and his Red crew Unwanted by Jerry ‘cept for the work they do Only British...

John Welsh War Diary Part 2

Travelled from Altona Station Hamburg on a troop train no heating, no windows across Germany, Holland,...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 26b: The Brandenburg Gate

Butch was invited to his camp in the Russian sector of Berlin in woodland, just off the road leading to...

Diary of K R Brant RAF 349 Squadron and POW

Got very little food -bread, 2 spuds, cup of soup, bit of marg. - not much, is it? The food is very...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 25: Hamburg to High Wycombe to Hamburg to High Wycombe again to Hamburg again

We next meet Butch emerging from the Hamburg Police Headquarters, bowed down with kitbag containing twenty...

Memories of D-day, Walcheren and VE day

The Port of Antwerp had been captured, virtually intact, in September but its use was denied because of...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 22.2

After reaching Moosburg the first 2 days were grim, no beds, little food except Red Cross parcels, we slept...

From Domestic to Intelligence Service

I was born and brought up in Breslau, which was then a German city about 300 km. south east of Berlin, but...

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