Norway

Coming Home

We flew in a formation of 40 Mosquitos to attack German shipping in Porsgrunn Harbour in Norway. Ron was...

A Rhodesian Pilot's Story - Chapter 1 - Shot Down in Norway

At the Stavanger Hospital, in which all the nurses were Norwegian, the top two floors were serviced by...

X-craft and Operation Source

In addition to handling the boat, the divers had to practise cutting through antisubmarine nets. This meant...

Target... Battleship Tirpitz

From his position in the nose of the aircraft, he called on the intercom; skipper this is the navigator, I...

Miracles at Sea: From Sullom Voe to Newcastle

HMS Electra had struck our shipside just forward of my cabin, and the forward bulkhead of my cabin had been...

Eight Years in the RAFVR - Part Three - Radar in Norway

IFF was a system that enabled radar stations to distinguish between incoming German and British aircraft....

Secret Mission To Fly Twelve Bristol Blenheims To Finland

This made the mission even more dangerous, as the R.A.F. would quite likely suffer an attack in an aircraft...

X-craft, the Tirpitz and Inadequate Tow Ropes

Although only four boats made it to the fjord to attack, all the crews were at the same peak. He and I...

Six Years in the Marines

Pom-poms and Morse code After training I was sent to North Shields to erect guns on either side of the...

Neville Chamberlain: My Father's Part in His Downfall

The "Cairo" at first did guardship duty as part of the Dover Patrol, being anti-aircraft cover for...

The '12th Submarine Flotilla': Vernon Coles

The X-Craft were based at Loch Cairnbaun, North West Scotland, and the operation to sink the enemy ships...

Norwegian Underground

On M.T.B 666 we sailed from Lerwick carrying supplies for the Norwegian Underground Fighters... We were...

Tom's Story - Part 3

The 10th Cruiser Squadron, led by Belfast, which we realised was carrying some very high ranking Navy and...

My Life My War - Chapter 8a

In this harbour sheltered a full flotilla of the latest class of German warships i.e. ten Destroyers, which...

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...

World War 2 and 'My' Commandos [L.Stevenson : Part 1]

As the R.M. 'green beret' Commandos began to appreciate the gutsy qualities of their little leader...

My Experiences with the N.W.E.F/Diary April-June 1940

In the early hours of the morning of Wednesday 15th, an enemy fighter plane skimmed the roof of the R. A....

The War Away From the Homefront-A Personal Account

With only rough directions as to how to get to Vavuniya, a British base in North Ceylon, his squadron were...

My War: With No 4 Commando

All the guns and tractors were shipped from Cardiff while the main body of the Regiment travelled by train...

The Last Boarding Action of the Royal Navy

In Cossack, R.N.V.R Officer Lieutenant Craven invited the Senior Norweigan Captain aboard and informed him...

HMS Hardy - Part 3 - Laying Mines off the Norwegian Coast; Battle with German Destroyers

British intelligence had learnt that German ore carriers were loading ore brought by rail via Narvik from...

Some Things are Meant to Be

Although both my Granma and Grandad spoke very little about the war, my Dad was able to explain in more...

A Story On The Wild Side

Our flotilla, the 52nd, which consisted of 8 torpedo boats under the command of Lt Cdr Bobby Nye, received...

Winter's Rages

The Norwegians wanted to enable the combatants to stay on Soroya and defy the German trawlers who were...

A Common Soldiers Story

However, by 1939 Britain had declared war on Germany and Grandpa was one of the first to be ‘called...

Local Hero Lofty Peacock

Lance Corporal Clarence Peacock, 1st Battalion The Green Howards showed conspicuous gallantry in action in...