V-1s and V-2s

Beginning of the war- Doodlebug.

The Doodlebugs came over, like an aeroplane, then they stopped, you counted to 9, then down they come, but...

Doodlebugs Overhead

I was out for a walk with my mother and small daughter when we heard a doodlebug almost overhead. When I...

The Doodle Bugs

In 1940, My Nan was sitting in her garden on the top of a hill with her Mum and Dad and her...

Growing Up During The War in Greenwich SE London

The “real war” began after that with the bombing of London and once again we were evacuated,...

Watching Doodlebugs

None of them landed on Stevenage but many fell in the surrounding fields....

Doodlebugs in Watford

The Doodlebugs were the most terrifying part of the war for me. It turned out that the Doodlebug had landed...

Buzz Bomb, Petts Wood

The bomb fortunately veered around in an easterly direction towards the station and fell in a road on the...

Doodlebug

He went to the back door to look into the garden and saw a doodlebug heading straight for their house - no...

cupboard under the stairs

My mother and father cleared out the cupboard under the stairs and that was where me and my mother slept......

August 1944 - Southend Crescent, Eltham SE9

It proceeded parallel to Eltham High Street, clipping the spire of Eltham Church and crashing on the...

Tea Party

We were having tea about 4 or 5pm and there were about ten of us around the table which was by a...

The Teeth

We were in the Anderson Shelter in the garden because the warning had gone, mum, dad, myself and my sister...

Beachcombing

The next day was Derby Day, we could hear the flying bomb over the microphone, and realised it had...

Happy Days vol#1

I was Private May Wallace Serving in Regiment 142 Heavy ack ack Battery. Are Sergent Betty Patterson From...

Doodle bugs

As I was born in 1940, I don't remember too much of the war - but I was terrified by the doodle...

V1 Surprise Over Lancashire

We were sure it must be a V1 - although they were unexpected over Lancashire. It was terribly sad that it...

The Gravestone in Mum's Bed!

The Gravestone in Mum's Bed. The doodlebug landed in the church yard and the force launched a grave...

Doodlebugs 2

One afternoon 8 friends and I went to Grays shore, south of Woodham Cement works to play on an old...

Flying Bombs

The reason my brother and I were sent to St Joseph's boarding school at Marden Hill was to be safe from...

Doodlebugs in the Meadow

I would be about 4 or 5 when I remember going to Bursley Grange Farm in Newtown. A team of local chaps...

Photo of visit by Lord Mayor to Endymion Road Brixton after V1 bomb

In the photograph from left to right are Alderman Lockyer, my mother Rosie Bullen, grandmother Henrietta...

Doodlebug Memories

I was very young at the time and living in Great Fransham near Dereham in Norfolk. A Doodlebug, that would...

Childhood memories - Part 3: Doodlebugs over Sussex

Being halfway between the coast and London the RAF had a field day pouncing on these rockets and several...

Rescue at Plaistow

Albert got the ladder up to the window above the shop, strapped the injured man to the stretcher and...

School days

As the ladies were playing, we heard the sound of a doodlebug approaching... We heard the engine stop and...

Five Year Old's Memories

If the sirens went off while we were at school we were sent into the air-raid shelter where we stayed until...