D-Day+ 1944

D Day from the Engine Room of HMS Glenroy

We reached Stranraer then a ferry to Larne where we met up with the Glenroy on St Patrick's day 1944....

Eric's War

I have vivid memories of him and his friends going off each Sunday morning dressed in their khaki uniforms...

D Plus One

The truck was backed in and these young French lads helped my men get the bodies on to the ground... The...

Life in the Home Guard on D-Day

Later on a request went out for volunteers to go to a gun battery at Friars Cliffe , recently built, and...

Joseph and Robert Casson, two Whitehaven brothers in the Battle of Normandy

Joseph and Robert were two of the sons of David and Mary Ellen Casson of Woodhouse, Whitehaven. On a couple...

D-Day and Boredom! A Sailor’s Story

Near to his ship was HMS Belfast and the Captain had just enough time to warn them that the barrage was...

The Last 8 Months of the War

We had amphibious tanks that were to go up over the Dykes to cross the river Isal. The Royal engineers had...

D-DAY Gold Beach - Letter Home

He served in Egypt, Malta, Scicily, Italy and finally took part in the D Day landings in 1944. We were...

My D-Day: Building Mosquito Bombers

Here they made the deHavilland Mosquito fuselage and the Horsa glider fuselage. The Lebus factory, normally...

The Eve of D-Day

Dad was a member of the elite " Coup de Main" force sent to Normandy on the eve of D Day... After...

Do You Sleep Easy at Night?

It was a bit terrifying, but we all went to school next day; my eldest sister went to Art College. My mum...

Memoirs of a Sapper - Part 3 - Preparation for Overlord

The group contained Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Colona, Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarr and Fred...

Mr W S Lowbridge June 1944

Leaving very early on June 6th from just off the Isle of Wight, the crossing was very rough; finally we...

“Who Dares Wins”: French SAS on D-Day

Sgt Contet was first trained at Largo near the Firth of forth in Scotland by Polish Paratroopers attached...

D-Day: A Memory of Landing at Ouistreham

My brother and I, were in the same regiment: "The Buckinghamshire Light Infantry" wichmade the D...

A Welsh Girl’s Perspective: Part 4

Jobs were in short supply, the housing situation was desperate, food stayed on ration for quite a while,...

Landing on Utah Beach in Normandy

After training with the Royal Navy's Forty Fourth LCT Flotilla in Exercise Tiger along Lyme Bay and the...

My Lasting Impression of D-Day: An Apprentice Boat Builder in Portsmouth

At the time of D-Day I was 16 years old, and I was working as an apprentice boat builder at Old Portsmouth,...

D-Day - Off Gold Beach, Normandy 1944

My liberty ship arrived off Gold Beach in the afternoon, it had a motely crew, the skipper was English,...

D-Day Experiences in Normandy

I was a Paratrooper in the 6th airborn division and we landed in Normandy just after midnight on the 6th...

Fusilier R J Parker 14392179

The sea was very rough, so we had to stand anchored of the Isle of Wight until further orders... This was...

My Journey Through WW2 - Tony Peach

I remember that trying to land in Malaya was really difficult as the water was so shallow, and that the...

Night Watch - A Radar Operator Watches As Ships Gather For D-Day Landings by "Radar"

There was a variety of radar equipment to learn about, some designed to track low flying aircraft and...

We Must Not Forget.

After two years working as a butcher in my home of Newcastle under Lyme, I signed up for the Army... I left...

Private L.F.Brooking's War - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Our dad, Leslie Francis Brooking, known as "Nobby", served in the Civil Defence in 1939 until June...

Air Ambulance in Normandy

We made our way to the village of Ranville and set up a forward medical station. For a long time we were...