V-1s and V-2s

Bromley Cottage Hospital

When you got all the flying bombs, that gave such a terrific blast, and so many casualties came in with...

Doodlebugs

We had a big, solid, kitchen table and we used to hide under there during air raids listening to the...

First Day At Work

He managed to get across to America but they did not accept his papers as a captain, so he worked his way...

Glass in the Hair from a Flying Bomb

One lovely afternoon, I was standing in the front garden of the bungalow with my two children and two girl...

A School Teacher's Story

At the beginning of the war I was working at Sidcup in Kent as a school teacher. As a teacher I was...

My Father was Churchill's Bodyguard

My father who was in the Royal Marines was posted to the Admiralty in London to guard Sir Winston Churchill...

My Grandparents Being Taken Back to the War

A week later, all schools had been bombed and the english forces had to figure out a plan to secure the...

The Other Way...:Childhood memories in Kent

Heeding the foreman's advise the boys turned and ran back past their picnic and under the flightpath of...

One Peaceful Sunday Morning...

I was only seven when the war ended, and my most vivid memory is of a doodlebug hitting our town, Westerham...

A Doodlebug Raid in Russell Gardens, N20 by Thomas W. Smith

During the last years of World War 2, I was living with my mother, granddad and 8 brothers and sisters in...

Two V2 Experiences

From the age of 11 I lived in Sunbury for most of the time - that is when we weren't evacuated to...

A Dog In The Sky?

I looked up to the sky and saw, a black dog. I turned to my dad and said "Look, theres a black...

Doodlebug

Right above the town, I watched an allied fighter aircraft attacking a "Doodlebug". He emptied his...

Our Lucky Day

We were at Brockwell Park — my mum, me and brothers... The barber kept cutting my dad's hair....

A "Doodle Bug" falls on Adswood, Stockport by "Marjorie"

Mercifully it fell mostly in the gardens of a pair of semis, and although the houses were damaged, the...

It's Raining Dowstairs

Born in 1933, my family lived in Geddling Street, Bermondsey... We were bombed out in Bermondsey and moved...

A Young Boy During the War

The next day I remember picking up bits of burnt newspaper, and as you know when paper is burnt the ink...

Doodlebugs in London

She describes how she felt and what she heard as bombs were dropped on London... On asking Mary about the...

Medical Marvel

Aunt Mag had come on a visit to my home in Chester-le-Street. Afer removing the bandages the doctor said...

The V1 at Lewisham, 1944

Doodlebug Encounter

During the latter half of the war my family were living in a requisitioned house at Ealing Common,West...

Motttingham

Beatrice Davies lived in Mottingham, South London, duringthe war, and travelled to work at The Ring, a...

Evacuation

My brother, sister and I were bussed to Paddington station complete with our gas masks and cardboard suit...

Different views of London at War

We lived in Thurrock, and could watch all the bombers going in to London, and then see our fighters come in...

Spring 1945 - Eltham/Avery Hill

The site I was on was in Restons Crescent opposite Perpins Road... This was an A4 that had broken up on...

Tasburgh Under Fire (Extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970)

During the German raids the shed where we kept our cycles was hit by tracer bullets. When bombs made impact...