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My Father - An RASC Driver In Western Europe

He was part of Monty's Second Army under Dempsey but being an RASC driver a certain amount of...

A Guilt Conscience by Ronald Curtis

I think it was September 1944, we were on dawn standby on the gun, when about 12 German fighter bombers...

A Guilt Conscience

I think it was September 1944, we were on dawn standby on the gun, when about 12 German fighter bombers...

A Guilt Conscience ??

I think it was September 1944, we were on dawn standby on the gun, when about 12 German fighter bombers...

George Pearson - Young Home Guard and Royal Marine - Part 2

I lost my first landing craft while at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. If you have enjoyed reading this...

Building bridges with the Royal Engineers in Europe

So we landed at Arromanches and then we had our main depot at a place called Luc-sur-Mer on the beach and...

Colourblind and in bomb disposal!

He worked at Kenley throughout the Battle of Britain and when the Germans shifted their attacks to the...

Rheims, to St Nazaire, to Portsmouth, 1940 - 2nd Air Formation Signals

Pauline Markwell's WW2, Newhaven & WAAF

They'd had to leave their flat in Dieppe because the Germans were advancing down the coast and they had...

War Experiences

My name is Stan Hodge I joined up in 1943 at 18 yeas old with the Essex Regiment and later transferred into...

Landing In Normandy

When they were planning the landing on the beaches in Normandy, we had to come from Westgate, right round...

ARTHER JOINS UP AND BECOMES A MOONRAKER part 1

We knew it was going to be a landing because all the vehicles were water proofed. The Naval officer was in...

After Colditz, on the Autobahn in Mayor of Leipzig's Car

After about two hours a carrier came up with two paratroopers They told us that the Germans were "a...

My D-Day Experiences

About a day after landing, about a mile inshore, near a French village the major said “Get ready for...

A NORMANDY STORY and A PARIS WELCOME

He joined the RAF Code and Cipher Branch and was posted to the Ministry of Defence in King Charles Street,...

1943 A year to remember - Part 2

As it was getting light we were told of our mission, we now had a German flag unfurled where the British...

A Military Medal for A/Sergeant Sidney Jenkinson

At the outbreak of the second World War he volunteered for military service and joined the 4th Battalion of...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

Abandoning the truck again we went down to the beach and found that instead of the long columns of men...

Private 4455304 Joseph Summerbell Wilkinson 7th and 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry and the 7th Battalion Green Howards

Private 4455304 Joseph Summerbell Wilkinson 7th and 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry and the 7th...

War memories of the Libyan desert related by my father

3: Going into action with an Indian regiment he saw his squadron friends from a damaged tank being machine...

Correspondence From France

Dear Madam I was able to visit the grave of your son-in-law Fluing Officer Leslie Frederick Green, last...

Wartime Experiences The Home Guard and Africa

On occasions, returning from London to Brentwood via Leytonstone, Epping and Ongar, I was stopped by the...

Part 2 - Snapshots to Normandy Landings

I was one of the team working on the selection from the albums and it was amazing to find several belonging...

A Sapper's Story

Previous Article-My Service for Freedom

By this time we were a specialised amphibious tank brigade, the 27th Armoured Brigade formed from the 1st...

My Invasion of Europe

From Granville we moved to Versaille to the headquarters at the Trianon Hotel. When we were moved to...