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The first aircraft that I did my Radio training in was a DH Dominieand then the Percival Proctor and Avro...
Led by Lieutenant Marsden, who came to take over from Lieutenant Slack and Corporal Freeman from...
V.E Day found us back in Poole Harbour, other ships anchored there also, most ships' companies partying...
Almighty God, who rulest over the Kingdoms of the World, send down Thy grace upon GEORGE, Thy Servant our...
Just then the Household Cavalry came up to us and after discussions with our Officers they set off up the...
A slightly lighter tale from this period is of my dad's mate, private Potts, who was regarded as the...
Near the end of his service and his diaries, he had a chance meeting with W.A.A.F. Corporal Mary Pettit at...
Unfortunately, he found one of the engines u/s. This meant that we had to clamber out of our aircraft, send...
The following are two letters that she has written to me, describing her nursing work during the beach...
At the beginning of the war I was a boarder at the Friends School at Sidcot in Somerset and clearly...
He then went to Chichester, Sussex, where he carried out convoy escorts in the English Cannel and raids...
Donald was later to meet up with this young German girl in Czestochowa and to save her from the liberating...
I received a free railway warrant so I cycled to Much Wenlock, got on the train to Buildwas, got off at the...
I left England on Tuesday August 15 1939 to travel to a mountain village near Munich to stay with Erika, a...
By the end of March 1945, a few weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces by...
Following two years of basic hospital work combined with what would now be called paramedic training, I was...
Joan then became W/297413 Drury A.M.. Mary returned to Bridgnorth and then 6 weeks later went to HQ at 44...
'40 Hommes ou 8 Chevaux' From there we were loaded on to cattle trucks labelled '40 Hommes ou 8...
Eventually he ended up fighting for the German Army on the front lines in France on the anti-aircraft guns....
When war broke out I was swimming in Ladywell Baths in South East London, I heard the sirens and they...
I was moved back to Bulford Camp to prepare for the invasion until a signal was given for the the other...
A" squadron had been chosen to run the camp at Ulm, about l5O miles north of Munich and so off we went...
The German doctor's examination revealed a nasty exit wound below Jock's shoulder blade and the...
My grandma's father, a member of the 'Reichsbahn', was a strong supporter of his...
As we moved through Caen and then into the Falaise Gap following a Guards Armoured Division and supplying...
They claimed that they knew nothing of what had happened in the camp, a Polish Jew informed me, adding...
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