France

D Day at 18

They had to get off the beaches quickly then fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany...

Landing in France, as told by Judith Hill, daughter of Robert Sturgeon

He had to drive a lorry off the landing craft.As the sand was quite soft and the sea very rough, he had...

VE Day: A Day to Remember

After five years as a prisoner of war, I was at Reims Airport waiting for Lancaster Bombers from...

Caen and falaise in a tank

He was in Caen and Falaise....

My Early Wartime Recollections. Part 3. As related by William Cope.

I left school in November 1942 and obtained employment in a Bank in Burton on Trent an I stayed there until...

Can anyone help? Route-march through France '39

Around about the 'Dunkirk' period, the 2nd Batallion, Northamptonshire Regiment were route-marched...

Leading to invasion of France

We were stationed at Oxted, Surrey on D.Day, a few days later we were told to pack up but not told where...

Night marches and rock climbing

The first six months training at Exmouth were hard but the time spent in Wales was very much harder. A...

James Callow-Normandy Landing

He had just crossed the Channel going to the Normandy landing and: "I was stood near the rails on a...

Not Poles

I took part in the support forces, flying in supplies, Bren guns carriers, light tanks, motorbikes, etc....

Searchlights

He was stationed at several gun sites on coastline in England and Wales... He was on duty when Swansea was...

Thomas Rodber

Harold was awarded the Military Medal for an action at Louvain on th night of 2/3 September 1944 when...

The Day We Shot Down A German Fighter

The most thrilling experience in my army days was when a German Fighter flew over our lines in Normandy...

my fathers dunkierk

He was stationed at the magino line in 1940 and when the germans started to in vade france, he was had to...

After Dunkirk - 100,000 Left In France - HMT Lancastria

My Grandfather died on the HMT Lancastria along with c 5000 other soldiers trying to get back to England...

Never sleep under a tank

I was 18, and had been fighting for two or three weeks in Normandy. I was with the Ts and Tyneside Division...

Mr Plumley

I landed in Normandy near Arromanches on D+10 and served with the regiment in France, Belgium, Holland and...

German Burials of Allied Dead.

Thirty-eight of our aircraft were lost, and, among the casualties was an Irish friend of my family called...

Eric Bird's war time story

There was a lot of commotion, sense of trepidation - it struck me that the invasion really had begun....

A Premonition

My father, Sgt John Hamlet Royal Artillery had his 21st birthday on Dunkirk beach - which was rather ironic...

destroyer ivanhoe

Iwas an able seamn in the Royal navy ,serving on H.M.S Ivanhoe.For Dunkirk add Death...

Guarding the Road

My grandfather was a radio operator and a line repairman for the U.S. army... My grandfather always...

Cover Under White Cliffs

I trained all the Royal Marines at Scapa Flow until 1943 when I was transferred to Kent on the South Coast...

Attempted German Invasion

Each day we used to receive classified security reports of the German troop movements, aircraft losses and...

The Locals Remember

Jacqueline lost her own brother Robert on the 19.08.44 he was shot a few miles away by the Germans, so...

Battle of Caen

Air battles, New Zealand pilot crash landed nearby, thought he was over enemy land, very grateful he saw...