Germany

Douglas Smithson: Glider Pilot Part 10

Why we were picked out, I never knew exactly but it seems that as Glider Pilots we should be prisoners of...

Charley Pocock's War Chapter 21 Continued

In this camp Red Cross food was used in the same way as at Bologna that is, the parcels were handed over...

My War Experiences Part 2 by Stan Rowley

We could only see a Military Police Sergeant with his snowdrop. There was something wrong and Captain said...

A Lancaster Bomber's Last Flight

Nelson and Rodney. We learned straight away that there were to be twin targets that night - Frankfurt and...

Alexander Mallet War Journal

I saw a lot of cruelty by German troops to the people of Greece while marching to and while waiting at the...

A Midsummer's Night Dip in the Baltic Chapter 2

SUPPORTING OPERATIONS: ® Diversionary Sweep over the North Sea; ® Berlin; ® Deelen Airfield;...

Engagement and Marriage in occupied Germany 1946 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Elsie's dress was taken care of by the W.A.A.F. Welfare Officer, and as Frau Voigt's daughter had...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 3

The German Officers in the camp took photos of men, one on a visit showed Buckingham Palace with the German...

Episodes from an Uncertain Memory 5 'P.O.W.'

They knocked hell out of Offlag 79, fortunately before I arrived, but a considerable amount of damage was...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's End of War Memories

In fact, whilst I was based at Wuppertal after the war, I was on guard duty at the prison where Von...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 4 'Five years as a POW

After three days in cattle trucks without food or drink we arrived at Lamsdorf Stalag VIIIB. This would be...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 2

We passed through a village and the French had put out buckets of water and some did give us food, but even...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 16b

Suddenly: "Take Post:" The stentorian voice came from the tannoy in front of the guns as Captain...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 10

So great was the risk of fire and explosion, that the General in charge of port facilities flew back to...

War Memories

She'd been 'naughty' in Brussels and she was well 'advanced' as we moved into Germany...

German Paratrooper POW

Heinz remembers the captain pulling a bald prisoner out of their line-up and advising the rest of them to...

A Trip Over Germany, April 1941: 58 Squadron and a Plane Crash into the North Sea

A heavy bomber soon arrived and dropped the dingy which landed in the water only about twenty yards away...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 17a

The action we were about to take part in was a big one, because the Reichswald Forest was the last major...

Escape from Germany 1945 by Arthur Berry

He said that there was no food available on the airfield but a “chow” wagon would be along in a...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 17c

Some time later, with the barrage continuing with unabated fury, and as we bumped slowly and laboriously...

Children in the War

I said to Robert: "How can you go to the English, they bombed and destroyed all our houses so that we...

My War

We went all the way down the French coast, past Calais — the Germans were still in Calais —...

The Teutoburger Wald Story 9AD and 1945 Part 2

It is not often recorded in books written by Officers and other ranks of the Allied forces of the reaction...

Meeting Bill Stafford, my future husband, in Bad Eilsen by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Prior to the R.A.F. taking over Bad Eilsen, the German Air Force had occupied it, and it was not long...

That Split Eternal Second (Part 2)

All that afternoon, from the depths of the hay, we listened to the clinking of tools as the Jerries dug...

Norman Macleod: Memories of Life in the Infantry and a Wartime Wedding.

And we had a club just after the war finished and we had a German band, a dance band - four blokes-...