V-1s and V-2s

The First Flying Bombs

While Albert was stationed there the Flying Bombs — V1's started. The very first time he saw...

Waiting To Die: Doodle Bug in Watford

My brother, mother and me lived in Watford during the war... Even though Watford is considered now as north...

The Doodlebug: Cutting a Privet Hedge in Stratford

Duncan lived in Stratford East London and one day in summer 1944, as it was a nice day his mother asked him...

Doodlebugs: Joyce Dring

We tried to live an ordinary life -style so we would go on cycle rides into the countryside around Hainault...

Flying bombs in Yorkshire

I remember the flying bombs going over Yorkshire in 1944. Eventually, I popped out of bed and went to the...

Doodlebug

It was August 1944 and I was eight years old.I was on holiday with my aunt in Williams Road, Southall in...

Doodlebug Injury

Mother sssumed that when the engine of a doodlebug stopped it did a 45 degree turn towards the ground......

DOODLEBUGS - Joyce Dring

Our school was sent to Aberdare in South Wales where Nina Bawden was Head Girl. This was the time of the...

Doodlebugs

I ran out to the back door and called my dad who was in the garden, and as he got in the...

Doodlebug

On 8th August 1944 I went with my father to Burgh Heath in Surrey in order to get my haircut. The coach...

513 Search Light Battery

I was a plotter of aircraft attached to the 513 Search Light Battery. I was with the Search Light Battery,...

V2 Rockets

My grandfather kept a load of pigs and suddenly the V2 rockets exploded in the air and the war head crashed...

My Grandma in the Blitz

One Sunday, my grandma heard a V2 rocket in the sky while talking to her brother and had to leave the phone...

Bombed-Out in Nutfield

In 1941 the local Canadian Army unit, was changing the guard in our village of Nutfield, Surrey, with a...

V2 Arrival

We had gone to bed-inside the Morrison indoor shelter on top of which, at night, our mother slept with the...

Flying Bomb

From our garden in Hythe Road we could see the park and the block of flats on Grange Road which faced the...

Kathy's Story

When I lived in Croyden war time the doodle bugs used to come over regularly every night... My mum used to...

Doodle Bug

My great grandparents had a bungalow in Chislehurst which is about 2-3 miles away.During their visit they...

Doodle Bug Over St. Paul`s

In 1941 I was a 15-year-old messenger on The Times newspaper working evenings collecting photos and copy...

V1’s and V2’s

The engine cut out, and it landed at Manor House....

Surviving in Streatham

My father worked at Smiths Industries in Cricklewood making aircraft instruments.At the height of the...

The doodlebug over Kenton (Nr Wembley)

The doodlebug over Kenton. On the day that this story was contributed at Bedford Civic Theatre, one of the...

The First V1 bomb

The Germans’ Second World War V1s, pilotless planes designed to explode on impact, and nicknamed...

Escape from a Doodle Bomb in London

Everyone on board was blown to pieces and then I proceeded to my job as a messenger boy in the General...

Beneath the Stairs: V1 over Bexley Heath

During the duration ofthe doodlebug bombings the family would take shelter in the cupboard under the...

My Front Door was Blown off its Hinges!

My Front Door was Blown off its Hinges. Suddenly, it exploded and blew our front door right off its hinges...