Germany

Experiences as a Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany

We all very quickly assumed a horizontal position and one fellow crawled across the floor to lock the front...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 14

The rations from the Russians were no better than we had had from the Germans whilst prisoners. He chose to...

Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 9

1945 With the German Officer was a Sergeant Major and about 50 soldiers, others having returned to their...

Miscellaneous Memories: Royal Armoured Corp

Having arrived back from hospital we had to take the old Shamans to the Stadium in Brussels as we were...

Wartime Experiences

Help soon came in the shape of 50,000 files, the German Naval Archives, discovered by the advancing Army in...

Memories of My Life being born in 1918 to My being a Soldier in the Second World War Part 14

When I told Fred that I was being posted to England, he replied "Lucky Bugger".I said "Why am I...

XI. Crossing the Albert Canal, Belgium and Onward to Tripsrath, Germany

From Bourg Leopold the plan was an attempt to cut the Germans off in Holland, outflanking the Siegfried...

From rags to riches part 1

When I was born on the 1st October 1924, my Mum and Dad had three children already, an older sister and two...

The Search for Cedric

Brian then told us that his brother in law William Smith had been with the 1st Herefords at that time and...

The Bedouin

HMS Partridge had taken the Bedouin and her crew in tow. Apart from that Christmas didn't exist on the...

Arthur Rose

One day I was detailed to drive a car commanded by a Lieutenant to Beccles Aerodrome to collect Major...

My Life in the RAF (Part 5).

East Kirkby was originally a decoy 'drome' for being near to the East Coast, they hoped the Germans...

Harry Tapley's Memories - Part 4

I gave him a hit and one of the blokes said “There it is Norman” and he couldn't see so he...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 11 of 13 - Stalag IV B Muhlberg-on-Elbe

There were compounds for Russians, Poles and Italians, and transit compounds for the working parties which...

Krystyna's Escape Part 2

In the meantime my mother found there was a possibility of escaping from Poland by illegally travelling in...

A Fine Looking Englishman

As I got better I got the self same food that they had and we'd go out – my mate and I...

A R.A.F. Barber in Occupied Germany by Bill Stafford

We retained our senior officers Lord Cunningham, Sir Arthur Hopps, Sir Charles Wigglesworth and Squadron...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 20 and 21

The camp at first appearance looked like an ordinary British hutted camp surrounded by the usual double...

Post-Dunkirk Memoirs of Sgt (later W.O) 7346129 Norman Smith RAMC

After his death his sons added to it with their mother's story and the years that Norman and Irene...

Reflections of a Lancaster Wop/AG in a Pathfinder Squadron

The main force of in excess of 300 aircraft were advised by us where to bomb in relation to our markers and...

Harry and Tom swap P.O.W. I.D. disks

A Russian Officer who knew a little German also a little English answered the door. Harry's parachute...

Douglas Smithson-Glider Pilot Part 12

After Kreuzburg we continued to a small town called Konstadt and though there to a little village where we...

The Teutoburger Wald Story 9AD and 1945 Part 1

The 11th Armoured Division and all its associated Armoured and Infantry groups had traversed across the...

An “extra-ordinary” soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C — Part 6

On reaching the stage of rapid deterioration the conversation then revolved round small rock cakes that...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 19a

It was the 43rd Division, supported by the tanks of the 8th Armoured Brigade who smashed some of the...

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders Squadron

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders...