Germany

Memories of War

It was a wonderful day and we held a good party, with some Dutch friends and Norwegian troops who were...

A Scholar Abroad (Part 1)

During 1937 my parents made an agreement with a Braxelles Hotel owner, that one of their daughters should...

Victory in Europe Day

We moved into the town over as assault bridge which had been put into place by an Armoured Vehicle Royal...

A Proper Gentleman

He told me that they had a German officer prisoner who'd given his word that he'd sit quietly for...

True Colours

Please meet the "enemy" a German smallholders farmers wife - my grandma: The idea was to hang a...

Aircraft M. I. A. Project - "Bette Jane" at Bydgoszcz Airfield

Her crew belonged to the 379th Bomb Group and consisted of 1st Lt. Merton H. Abbott - pilot, F/O Ora T....

The POW from Stalag Luft 3

The Master of Baliol College, Oxford, had set up a relief organisation to send parcels to POWs... On their...

J A Martin DFC - An Oily Face Over Bremen

We went out one night on a bomb raid and the tacticians thought they would be very crafty, after the main...

J A Martin DFC - Nonchalant award of DFCs

I heard the news of the award when I was reading the Flight Magazine one night in the Officers Mess, and...

Prisoner of War for Three Years

He was taken prisoner of war in Toubrock, N. Africa by the Italian Forces and spent some time iin a...

Talented Officer

At the outbreak of war Jack volunteered to join the South African army. In March 1941 my sister was born...

Memories of VE Day (RAF Sergeant J.C.Thompson)

We had travelled through Belsen en route from Celle to Luneberg and our site for our airstrip was several...

Joe and Grace

First of all I had got engaged to his brother but broke it off and started going out with Joe... His...

German footsoldier, Bird of Passage

Sugata, then Karl Hendrick, took back with him to Norway the co-ordinates of Pennemunde, the place where...

One day in Berlin

My Grandad always told me stories about WW2, this one is special.When he was a child he lived in Berlin and...

ME 262- A JET I'D NEVER SEE

The plane in question was the German ME 265, the equivalent of the British meteor jet fighter... Seconds...

Reconnaissance Regiment at Belsen

I was in the 43rd Wessex Infantry Reconnaissance Corps....

Teenager of the Third Reich

It was late November 1944 and as the only male of fighting ageleft in the village of...

Getting Back from Leipzig

I was flying as a Flight Engineer with my first crew and returning from a Pathfinder trip to Leipzig, my...

MV Cheshire Cruise

My employer's agent in Hamburg arranged for his secretary to show me around the city. She had dinner...

Trouble with Smoke: Service with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

I was a gunner at the time and we had just come out of action and both tanks shot at the enemy...

A Sergeant Remembers

I went over to France a few days after D-Day as part of Operation Overlord, providing protection over Le...

Prisoner of War Stalag IXc

His mother received two telegrams - first one saying "missing believed dead" then 10 weeks later...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz in 1941 by Shirley Cawthra (nee Beardwell)

German civilians were apparently so incensed by RAF bombings that they hung RAF POWs from trees... I...

J A Martin DFC - Resourceful Luftwaffe

It must have been some type of pyrotechnic which after being fired into the air, reached the height we were...

My Dads War: 6th Battalion KSLI and 181 Field Regiment RA

What I discovered over the following six years astonished me.Not only had my father took an active part in...