V-1s and V-2s

Doodlebugs

Fighter planes were shooting at the flying bombs, and anti-aircraft guns were also firing but many of them...

Recollections

Early in 1943 I was looking out of the window at a small aircraft which was being fired at by anti-aircraft...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences part 7 - The flying bombs

I saw the results of a Flying Bomb on the cottages in Bromley Road opposite what was then Perry's...

Evacuation

My sister aged 9 and brother aged 4 were also being evacuated and mum and dad said that I should go with...

Volunteering for the RAF

The partners and a number of senior staff had been evacuated to Edgware but as I was relatively junior at...

Doodlebugs over London

In the early summer of 1944 I was one of ten A.T.S. girls working in the war Office and living in a...

The Blitz - My Recollections.

It's 1943 and I'm 8yrs. old,not very old but old enough to stand at night in our garden, nervously...

A Schoolboy's Brush with a V1 and V2: In Essex.

During the Summer holidays a number of us had gone to work on a farm at Paglesham, a few miles from...

My First 6 Years

A friend of my Aunt had been traumatised by being buried when a bomb which dropped on the under-ground, so...

The Exploding Headmaster

Officially they were ‘Flying Bombs’ but to us small boys they were always either...

Tragedy - V1 Rocket Attack on Barking

The husband always went down into their Anderson Shelter during air-raids, but his wife and daughter did...

Bombs over Harringay

My family comprised three brothers, Geoff 13, Roy 16, Peter 19 and my sister Rosemary aged 21... We lived...

The Night the Roof Fell in: A V1 in London

Dad bent down to kiss us all goodbye, “Off you go now and be good girls for Mum” Fares...

Dad's Recollections of the Doodlebug

She told me that Dad was still in Fulham Hospital with a broken hip and cuts....

Our First Night Was Memorable

After training we were sent to Scotland as part of a new A.A Battery on the Craigentenny Golf Course,...

My Memories of Evacuation

Originally the school was sent to Chailey, but it was soon realised by the authorities that the village...

'I didn't like the country'; A Westminster Girl Returns to London by Stella Aiken

'I didn't like the country'; A Westminster Girl Returns to London by Stella Aiken. Many of the...

The Day The Sky Almost Fell

It happened one night that a doodlebug's petrol tank was perforated by British bullets and leaked...

Followed Around West London by Bombs, by Charles Leonard

I came back to London a week after D-Day, I was here during the flying bombs attack on June 13th 1944....

As A Child in the War in Ilford Essex

There I remember hearing the droning of planes, the booming of the anti aircraft guns in Barking park and...

Flying Bombs over Sidcup

We did experience some of the bombing down in Kent and certainly up in North Wales we witnessed the...

Doodle Bug Tales

2 It was 7 a.m. and my mother was just taking a cup of tea in to our visitor in bed, when...

Dollis Hill, London. February 1944 - Our Flying Bomb

Before going up to bed I had done my nightly chore of shutting Paddy, our cat, out in the garden and...

A Close Call

My father stayed in London in our flat in Walworth SE17 because he was in the ARP. My brother and sisters...

The Doodlebug Summer

It was lunchtime - Mum was cooking dinner and we were playing at the back when we heard a V1 coming in...

Momentary Panic: At Stansfield Working Mens Club

Living in Stansfield during the war meant we were surrounded by airfields; Stradishall, Chedburgh,...