Stories categorised in 'V-1s and V-2s'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Had Churchill spent the wearily weeks of the V1 offensive, that lasted, those ground ramp launched from Cap...
We eventually got the call to get ready for bed, cleared up and did just that, after hanging up our prize...
1969 Request for Henry machine drawing by Leasco Systems and Research Company to be included in the summer...
Those pilotless V1 flying bombs, Buzzbombs, or Doodlebugs as they were known to us, were terror weapons...
On one occasion the body of a German airman was found without a parachute in the garden of a house in the...
German aeroplanes dropped thousands of bombs on London and major cities destroying homes, factories and...
Looking back I realise it was not easy for mum and dad, they were only in their mid forties and had no...
Leslie Hardman, a chaplain in the British Army spoke to us for about an hour in Yiddish and gave us...
My brother and I had to go to bed at our usual time and it was horrible down the garden with the...
Regular training and practice in the art of extinguishing incendiary bombs with the piddling jet from a...
The V1, buzz bomb or doodlebug was another horror. Sometimes during the bombing, you'd lose your water...
The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. Luftwaffe permitting, my mother put my sister and...
I should explain that I was a ‘conshy’ and being awarded non-combatant status in the Army, had,...
Only the cooker survived - an old blue/grey enamel stove - although the 4 cast legs had been twisted in the...
If it had failed, the V1's, V2's, and possibly even the V3's, which were never used, might have...
The first flying bomb to hit Cranleigh had landed in the Rookery, a small wood between the railway line and...
My family lived at Lanercost Road, Tulse Hill, a quietish South London suburb between Streatham, Brixton...
When the in-laws of my eldest sister heard of our plight her father-in-law collected early in the morning...
And I braved the doodlebugs with Mummy working in a day nursery....
Minna Chatrine Scott, nee Tofte, formerly of the ATS, in Warlingham with her Scots Terrier. Young Mr.B: May...
It was a Saturday afternoon, cloudy but bright, and I was cycling home from Windsor in the direction of...
The last explosion we had heard was the arrival of a V2 rocket in Spansey woods on the edge of town,and...
The air siren sounded and my granmother told me to come in out of the garden, I said I was all right...
I, together with fourteen other boys were at our desks, struggling with our School Certificate Exams.I was...
By Jaon Rhodes: Early September 1944, I was in the Middlesex Hospital at Isleworth, awaiting the birth of...
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