Italy

And I saw "Gone with the Wind" in Baghdad

The 8th Army then made its way into Italy and by 1945 dad was around Venice and Padua. Dad was not...

Gunner Burnard and the Brigadier

I looked up the details of Geoff's burial site on the CWGC website and discovered for the first time...

Tweedy and Napoli

Guardsman Tweedy, if my memory serves me right, had just recently joined my platoon on the outskirts of the...

Fighting with Monty

Naples here we come We reimbarked on an American boat for Naples and were in Italy when Vesuvius blew up....

The Day that War Broke Out - Facts & Figures Pt 3

This was a peculiarly primeval type of war, at distressingly close quarters for the OPs which were merely...

Tales from a US Navy Ships Radio Operator

We were preparing for the landings in Sicily, the harbour was full of invasion craft and a certain young...

The British Soldier

Major Fletcher, an elderly officer, but a lovely chap, Lt Young, he was involved with UNRA and was kind to...

Dive Bombing in Italy - A Memory Confirmed

The next day 90 Bty guns moved towards Termoli on route protection and RHQ moved to north of Serracapriola...

Acting Italian

As I speak a little Italian and am dark I should not have been noticed so easily, but my South African pal...

Ron's Grand Tour

In the fond hope that other folk have trod this path with me, I now give Ron's Grand Tour, 1942 to 1947...

Italy Part 5; Crossing the Gargliano cont'd

From Picilli, we went back to Casa Luce, another town with no remarkable qualities, and from there to Sarno...

Prisoner of War: Captured at Anzio

So apparently they wanted to pull away some of the German troops from Montecassino so they put in an...

A Truly Remarkable Coincidence

Mike obviously came from Lancashire and when he told me he lived at Nelson I replied that I had often...

Pola Incident

Having advanced my age by two years to join the army at sixteen in 1942, I was sent to the Buffs barracks...

El Alamein to Montecassino

I toured North Africa and Italy, including stops in: El Alamein, Egypt, Phillipville, Montecassino, Italy,...

My Experience in Reconnaissance Corps.

After some 8 weeks several of us were sent to the 46th Recce Regiment in Kent and I became a member of...

Lancaster Bombers and Operation Dodge by Richard Gration

The pick-up points in Italy were Bari on the South east coast towards the bottom of the country and the...

Memories 3c

RHQ leaves the field where the DUKWs were unloaded, four long months ago, and which now has communicating...

The Atomic Bomb - and V-J Day

My wife Minna, writing on the following day, had nothing to say about this: On 9 August the Americans...

A not so “Tall” short story, “England Expects”

I was a Petty Officer at the time, and therefore in the Chief and Petty Officer's mess... The Chief...

Wartime Rescue

My Grandfather and Mr Grignani took 5 prisoners at a time by train to the Swiss border. When they reached...

Tanks and Parachutes [B.Barney]

It was chaos and badly planned; only one tank got to Arnhem bridge. Working for Bertrum Mills and the...

Poor Italian Boy.

Therewas no desire on my part to go out on my first day of arrival having just come off a ship and...

Nipped in the bud: 46th Royal Tank Regiment in Taranto

I asked the Trooper in front what was happening and he said that there was a 'Flap on' because a...

The Road To Rome

As we crawled through the flattened remains of a town called Cassino we looked up to that mountain crest...

Memories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,R.A.S.C.WW2

I'd like to share with readers some meories of my Grandfather,Driver Charlie Smith,Royal Army Service...