V-1s and V-2s

Old Southgate

On a warm hot september day I was at the allotment with my dad when the air raid siren sounded. chaimberlin...

Narrow Escape-V1 in Bushey

In 1944 the Germans began using their terror weapons, flying bombs and rockets. Flying bombs, which the...

Nine lives

I lived in "Flying Bomb Alley" and as was very conscious of the German bombers flying overhead......

University Life (Oxford, 1942 to 1944)

My name during the war was Anne Lowe and I began reading Modern History at Oxford University in 1942....

A Wartime Childhood.

First memories; the blitz raining on Lewisham, moving to Waltham Cross, Herts, the day before our house in...

RAF Protection Practice Against German V1 Rockets

It was during the period when the Germans were sending over V1 rockets targetted for London... At the same...

At School in Coggeshall and then onto War…

When I left school I started work at Crittalls in Braintree and I biked there from Coggeshall... At 13 I...

Wedding Night Doodlebugs, and Other Tales

I lived in Walthamstow and worked in a solicitor's in Cheapside in the East End....

Our First Doodlebug

My brother then aged 2 was asleep in his cot, I was in the back bedroom, my parents were downstairs in our...

Doodlebug and Spitfire

My earliest recollection of the war was standing in the garden in Dalmally Road and watching a doodlebug...

Doodle Bug

There I met Claude and we decided to have a game of snooker. We went into the snooker romm and started...

A dodgy 'Doodle-bug'

Suddenly the unmistakeable rasping staccato sound of a German flying bomb was heard... The flying bomb had...

Two things I Really Remember

In The buildup to D Day the ladies of the area around High Street South, Norman Road, Londsdale Road, all...

The Doodlebug on Goldsmiths College

Doodlebugs.

We always knew when a doodlebug was very close because it made any loose ornaments in the house vibrate...

I Was Pulled From The Rubble

They say I was very close to grandma, she thought the world of me... My first recollection and I can...

A Young Boy in the War, and His Baptism With Death

I went back to Eastbourne, the next thing that I remember was that a cargo ship floundered on the coast; it...

Surviving Enemy Bombing.

Petts Wood is only a couple of miles from RAF Biggin Hill,and as the air war intensified,our street...

Dodging the V1s

We were never hit directly, but did suffer damage from a bomb which demolished a house three dors away in...

Guildford Doodlebug

I was alone when — overhead — there came the ominous and distinctive chug-chug of a flying...

Life in East London Shelters

The unmanned rockets were launched from France and had fuel enough to go to London. Sometimes Dad and I...

Doodlebug hit Charlton Railway Station

In June 1944 my mum Grace Cole who is now 79 was working in the co-op which was next door to charlton...

The V Weapons

The V1's were still getting through albeit in fewer numbers now, but one Saturday morning in August we...

Wartime Child

Although I had been evacuated to Wiltshire, curiously enough my parents decided I should come home to the...

War Office in Whitehall

I trained as a teleprinter/wireless operator in the Royal Signals and served in various locations...

A Saturday Afternoon

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in June 1944 and I was playing ball in the garden next door with Ray...