Germany

Thomas Trimble RAF P.O.W. Wartime Log Chapter 3 Germany The Long March

Jan 22 Reported Russian armour over Oder Bridge which we crossed reported demolished, at 3 a.m. Panic...

The Last Flight of Lancaster PB409

On the night of the 23rd September 1944, Lancaster Bomber PB409 of 97th Squadron, Royal Air Force Bomber...

Doodle-bugs - to Luneberg

I was the sole Typex Cipher bod in the Unit, however it was not until back in Britain afterwards that my...

My Friend Hille

You were Madame Le Blanc In our charades While I sat in another room Dressing in white apron and white cap...

A War Veteran's Experiences Remembered.

We as bomber crews never had fighter protection on any of our night bombing raids and our own squadron...

From the Rhine to the Teutoburger Wald

These units together with all their support groups were part of the Allied Forces who crossed the River...

From Norwich to Hamburg with the Royal Artillery

The Germans had a habit of tying wire across the road at head height to get us dispatch riders. We were the...

Hill 112 and the Death March

My seargeant Offord was hit and i put my whole pack of bandages in the hole in his stomach. I went to...

Great escape (of the mind)

He spoke of trying to shelter in stony orchards where the German shells turned the rocks into lethal...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 7 'Release the the Journey Home'

On the 8th May we were flown by Dakota aircraft to Brussels where we were cleaned up and given cash......

"Haben Sie Wasser Bitte?"

Bomb is the same in both languages, however aimer sounds very much like the German word "eimer"...

Battle of the Reichswald Forest - A Teenager's Battle

Fortunately the transport provided was a Royal Canadian Airforce Dakota called "Gloomy Sunday" and...

Coming Home ?

The commanding officer gave Charles permission to visit Koblenz to find his parents and in a heart-warming...

Teenage Memories of Hanover

I applied for a job at an ex german ammunition depot, which was taken over by the British. The college I...

With the Suffolk Royal Engineers

In addition to routine office duties, the CQMS allocated to me the amending of King's Regulations,...

SHOT DOWN OVER AACHEN

He was a bomb aimer in a halifax bomber and on the night of 24th may 1944 he was shot down over...

My Uncle Ted

Given that their were 5 graves in Sage, including my Uncle, all supposedly from 110 Squadron, there had to...

Eric, Service no 1392973: A Modest Hero of Bomber Command - and POW

I feel bound to honour the memory of this man, and all his comrades in arms in bomber command whose memory...

John Martin's Part in the Raid on Hamburg

We flew down the River Elbe and bombed Hamburg... The third night that Hamburg was bombed that week, was...

My experiences

I went to Morecambe for training as a Wireless Air Gunner. We crashed on the beach and were actually saved...

With a Royal Engineers Bridging Unit

One day the Sergeant Major organised a draw from a hat — I drew the piece of paper with a cross on...

The Teutoburger Wald 9AD and 1945 Part 3

The 11th Armoured Division continued eastward and crossed the Rivers Leine and Aller and after bypassing...

Gerda Anne Honey nee Ruhl (1)

She lived on Falkenseer Chausse, a broad boulivard running through Spandau in the NW of Berlin,with her...

A Close Encounter: 158 SQN RAF Lisset Halifax MKIII "F" (Friday 13th) Pilot F/LT N.G.Gordon.RCAF

The Skipper chose to use a short wave radio to contact the airfield at Blackbush, but as a shock to us, all...

Winged Chariots -Part 6: Flak, Flying boots and broom handles

Brothers Tom, Norman and Walter Edwards all served as aircrew, Tom as an air gunner, Norman as a Spitfire...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 24: Eindhoven - March 1945 Holland - Into Germany `Across the Rhine on the Twenty Nine'

Only five days behind Monty, whose front line troops crossed the Rhine near Wesel, North of the Ruhr, on...