V-1s and V-2s

Encounter with a Flying Bomb

The usual procedure of the Bomb's journey was; leaving the French Coast with enough jet fuel to take it...

London During the War

My flat mate Isobel from Belfast and I went to the Highgate Village underground shelter every night —...

Wartime Memories

Probably the most vivid was being taken by my mother to see the wreckage of a German aircraft that was shot...

Memories Of A Land Girl-Constance Hoskins

Then I was sent into the Land Army, I had never travelled so far on my own before, but I got there...

Memories of a Sutton Girl [Mrs.Park]

1939 I was born in Sutton in Surrey saw a lot of the bombing in the docks, My father had his own...

The Memories of my Aunt in Harrow & London

As war progressed the Germans launched V1 flying bombs at London. This was one of the signals used to...

Memories from Second World War

It was after a subsequent more terrible raid that I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940”...

Hornchurch Aerodrome and Flying Bombs

My father was at Gallipoli in World War One, in the Essex Regiment and he never bore any grudge against...

My Second World War Memories

My brother Eddie Edward Tanner, who had joined the Territorial Army had gone on a cycling holiday with a...

War Service - Southern Railway 1942-1946

So I was given a card and told to report to Feltham railway depot... I found that the railway stories of...

Training for "Phantom" 1944-5

A feature of our life in Richmond Park was the German assault on London with flying bombs, V 1 s or...

Up the North Sea on a Pleasure Boat - Gravesend's War

We left home very early on Saturday Sept.2nd and boarded a pleasure steamer called ‘The Royal...

Childhood Memories

Their job was crane driving and they used to travel all over the area to pick up the remains of crashed...

An Acton Teenagers War (part 3)

I spent my days playing on the moor with a boy, John Buss, whose Mother had been killed in the bombing and...

Wartime Parenting

There was Brownies, shrapnel in the garden after an air raid and I was free to go to the British Restaurant...

Memories of World War 2 and the effect it had on my family

1944 had past and now 1945 and my life was happy with my grandparents and I enjoyed the village life and my...

The V-2 Long range Rocket

Shortly after the Chiswick incident further explosions began to occur in other parts of London, mainly in...

A Bermondsey Boy's War

For the rest of the time we boys were out collecting shrapnel, nose-caps and shell cases for salvage; also...

Aircraft and Doodlebugs

On the steep hills behind Hythe gun batteries were positioned to disable or destroy the doodlebugs....

Just Another Day: V1 in Worcester Park

I can see my father now standing in the doorway of the shelter hands against th wall on either side to...

Doodlebug in Chiswick

As the doodlbug's engine had cut out, she said she knew that the bomb was going to fall near her, so...

Big War Little War

There were three bomb sites in our road , one on the corner of Sylvester, one on the corner of Whately and...

War Diaries (part 4)

13-10-1940 Sunday Around 11.30 a.m., Alan, Bert's son, asked if he and Loline could go up to the Golf...

“Hitler bombed my Beano Annual”

Hitler's new miracle weapons, VI bombs first landed on London in June 1944. At the time my family, Mum...

World War 2 As Seen By A 10-to-16-Year-Old Boy

Sidcup was on the south-eastern outskirts of London and, after France had been overrun by the Germans, the...

Emille Baudot Part III

Other than that, we had three two-day stops at sea to do repairs to the boilers before we reached Bombay...