V-1s and V-2s

Flying Gas Mains

In July 1944 I had just turned 6 years old when my Mother and I had to flee our home near Enfield,...

Flying Bomb

I lived at Hythe Road during the war, the bomb that fell between the two above roads is one of my most...

Doodle Bug

As lads, we played football in our local park, Collingwood Road, the home of Sutton United. Sutton had many...

Doodlebugs at night

Then came the explosion and we thought that it was a German bomber been shot down with it's bomb load...

Air Armada

I can only surmise that all the sorties that flew over France and the Lowlands that day were routed over...

Doodle Bug

My short trousers were hanging from a broken window frame and the rest of my clothes had joined the...

It's One Of Ours Ange!

Gran,Uncle Bill,Uncle Arthur and epileptic Aunt Nell,were all engaged in redecorating Gran's kitchen....

Gwen Green's 'near misses' experiences

Another time, we dashed home from work when some sticker bombs came down... One of the bombs landed in the...

A Narrow Escape

A friend of mine had a brother in law who had been in the Navy, he had come home on leave after...

Glasgow Blitz

"This story was submitted to the People's War site by Alison Gowdy of BBC on behalf of and has been...

Doodlebugs — July 1944

In 1944 I had chicken pox and wasn't allowed to sleep down the shelter at the block of flats I lived in...

One Day in 1945

I was realesed from Plesseys war work aged 15 I started work at a garment factory. on the corner of Ley...

Walthamstow Bombing

I was three years old when I was evacuated to Stewartby in Bedfordshire from Walthamstow during the Blitz...

"The Way Ahead"

I was at the cinema watching “The Way Ahead” starring David Niven when the V1's and...

The Explosion at the New Cross Empire, New Cross, South London by William Thomas Hooker

The Explosion at the New Cross Empire, New Cross, South London by William Thomas Hooker. There was a famous...

A lucky escape from a V2 Rocket

Having known the danger as soon as the engine cut out from my father who was an Air Raid Warden with Civil...

The Doodle Bug

Dad was in the bathroom across the hall... Mother didn't wait for the all-clear but dashed across the...

Lightning never strikes twice?: Flying Bombs in Essex

One lady, called Mrs. Plumb, lived in a council house in a small development 100yds from the road which ran...

A Doodlebug Raid in South London, 1944 by Audrey Trudgill

When I heard a doodlebug, I used to shout for my mother, who would run out into the garden and pick up...

V1 Flying Bomb: Sholing, Southampton

THIS STORY IS ABOUT ONE OF THE FIRST V-1 FLYING BOMBS WHICH HIT THE SHOLING... THE BOMB FELL IN....

V2 Flying Bombs

I was born during the last war and my mother took me over to visit my Great Grand parents before visiting a...

First Day of the Doodlebug Raids

Subsequent appearances in the same direction were fired at by the Bofors gun unit stationed four hundred...

A Travelling Joiner In Scotland

To begin with in Dundee, I was working for the builder, Albert Thain. Edward Farningham via Dundee Central...

An Eight Year Old's Memory of Being Left at Home by her Mother

So she went to work at Briggs Motor Works, where they were making the airplanes. The whole of it was...

The First V2 Rocket to Fall in Britian

Then i realised the darkness was caused by the blackout blinds falling down over the windows... On...

Air Raid Warning boy Warden.

I remember after D'Day when the Germans started to send over the V1s, I lived in Edgware and we were on...