V-1s and V-2s

Ayton Memories 1

During the second world war I worked at Plaxtons in Scarborough, producing ammunition boxes and then served...

Sky Rocket

My wife told me that during the war she was walking home with her mother along North Road, when they saw a...

Cap Gris Nez

Although the Cabinet knew that “45,000 pilot less flying bombs could be expect to be launched against...

The First V1 Falls on London

The Doodlebugs

It was 16th June 1944 and announcements made later that day made it clear that we had not been attacked by...

Doodle Bug Alley

The flying bombs continued until the allied armies, now moving rapidly through France, captured the bases...

Doodlebugs over Surbiton

At this particular time, towards the end of the war when the flying bombs were about = the doodlebugs -...

Flying Bombs in Warlingham

Minna Chatrine Scott, nee Tofte, formerly of the ATS, with her Scots Terrier outside 'Clearview'...

Re: Flying bombs over London

In the summer of 1944 Germany instituted a campaign of blanket bombing of London and the South-East of...

A lucky escape in Doodlebug Alley

We lived in Cheam in Surrey, in an area which had come to be known as 'Doodlebug Alley'. More of...

Flying bomb

I had fallen to the pavement trying to make myself as small as possible and I think I was trying to dig...

Doodlebugs

It was called “a flying bomb” or “doodlebug” as it was commonly known. A...

The Doodlebug Story

Ilooked up and saw a Spitfire firing cannon shells at V1 flying bomb which were known as...

A close encounter with a V2

Our garden was too small to fit in an air-raid shelter so two shelter were built in the garden next door....

Doodlebugs and V2's

We called these V1s "Doodlebugs". A doodlebug was really a bomb with wings... It was much bigger...

My Mother's War

A cold smack of rain across my face held me in check after I had scrambled onto an old Valor stove and...

Our Lucky Day

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

Doodlebugs in Hornchurch

I lived in Hornchurch which had an aerodrome but the Germans didn't know it existed , the only bomb...

Doodle bugs over Manchester.

A total of approximately 50 V1 flying bombswere launched on December 24th,1944,aimed at Manchester.To...

Doodle Bug (V1)

I ran indoors shouting and screeming, my dad worked at night and was sleeping in the indoor shelter, the...

A Near Miss With A V2 Rocket

It was then that a V2 rocket landed on the Button Factory behind Ardley Green School, which was a wooden...

Height of Doodle Bug Raids on London.

I lived in Wimbledon during this period as a child of 8/9 years old. I heard a flying bomb overhead and...

Purring Doodlebugs

The Doodlebug raids in the latter part of the war were perhaps the most nerve-racking time even for...

Blown off the Lav'!

He was a dentist in Torquay and he had a dental technician called Cecil Yarwood who worked with him. One...

My Lift to the Cemetary

We went toeh end of the road and asked a motorist to take us to the cemetary. My friend lived opposite the...

Doodle Bug Over Corringham - Save the Dog

Doodle Bug Over Corringham — Save the Dog....