Sicily

Bill Williams's War 3

My souvenir of that winter is a wooden cigarette case carved with a 1944 symbol on a reindeer scene, made...

Bill Williams's War 2

The next thing was the Troop Officer took over my tank and crew and left me with his damaged one. I thought...

The Darkest Hour - 5th Northamptons (Part 2)

By July 1944, I was happy to announce a gift to the church of a portrait of Saint Leonard The...

Bradford to Bradford in 5 Years 11 Months

In November we got orders to prepare to move, and one evening were transported to Famagusta again, leaving...

Sicily

By the time the Battalion landed in Sicily a third of the island was in Allied hands, but that didn't...

A very narrow escape

The sound of the aircraft grew louder until I thought it was directly overhead and screwed up my shoulders...

Sicily, Then On To Italy

On the 24th of July my unit, the 49th Light Ack Ack Regiment, disembarked North of Avola, Sicily as part of...

Join the Navy and See the World: 5 (Sicily)

Firstly here are Len's words written in a W/T Operator's Log book, about Operation Husky, the...

Crash Landing off the Coast of Sicily

On the invasion of Sicily from Tunisia, we took off in our Waco glider on the evening of 9th July 1943,...

Beach Landing at Sicily

He was on one of the landing craft that was taking them to the landing beach. They were coming under heavy...

Memories of World War II: Royal Army Service Corps

I was to travel on a flat-bottomed landing craft and had to supervise the loading of vehicles of all kinds,...

Part 10 Goodbye to Cape Town

Egypt eventually appeared, at least it was solid land, but now flies added to the discomfort of the daytime...

Sam's War

GLIDER PILOT ORIGINS During this time Winston Churchill was mightily impressed with the German raid on the...

Life in the Army - Chapter 17 — The Invasion of Europe - Sicily

The Priests all went to the Ordnance Depot to be water proofed so it looks as though an invasion was...

Dungannon Boy goes to War - Chapter 3

Driving into Beirut, I as Sergeant in charge of the convoy, eventually found my way to an Army Headquarters...

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Two - From Iraq to Egypt (posted to the 50th Northumbrian Division) and Operation Husky, the Invasion of Sicily 10th July 1943.

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Two - From Iraq to Egypt and Operation Husky, the Invasion of...

Tom's Story -Part 2

We spent some time in Oran and Algiers and in the latter Port we were subject to one of the heaviest air...

Bill Williams's experiences as Prisoner of War: July 1943 — January 1945

When I arrived in Regensburg, I was put into a combined hospital, sanatorium and lunatic asylum, peopled by...

Ben Cumming's War - Chapter 3: Sicily and Italy

The American 7th Army Corps under General "Blood and Guts" Patton had landed at Gela on the east...

117 Squadron

Before rejoining our squadron on our second detachment to Fez we had to fly to an American air base south...

Personal Recollections of WW2 by Ronald Marson - chapter 2

The 5th Division landed in and around Syracusa on the east coast with its objective the short northerly...

Thomas Emyr Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story (Part 7 of 13 - The Invasion of Sicily, July 1943)

Meanwhile, back in North Africa, in comparative safety, while the 1st Airborne Division pushed on with the...

An MC at Centuripe

Consequently at about 4.30 p.m. Battalion Headquarters move3 up to Point 640 and “C” Company...

Sicily - July 1943

We progressed up the Eastern side of the island to make an attack on Sortino and during this period came...

A Thomas Cook Tour

Belvoir Park, Belfast, was an ammunition dump at the time. Whilst there, I saw Winston Churchill, President...

My Life My War - Chapter 12c

On the 17th of July the Warspite received orders that in company with HMS Valiant, they were to bombard to...