D-Day+ 1944

Pennies For Luck by Natasha Drewry

Being a very warm-hearted little girl, she ended up giving all her pennies away to soldiers in the hope...

Normandy Rose: Onboard the SS Julia off Omaha Beach

The Belgian merchant navy were never recognized for their sacrifice and he always said the rose was his...

Why Aren't We Up There?

Nacton aerodrome was a small grass airfield and was home to target towing aicraft only.The pilots were what...

Royal Navy Experiences

In D-Day we bombarded the pill-boxes on the beach head at Sword and Juno in Normandy. We then patrolled at...

'Rocket Ships'

My late husband was a Sub-Lieutenant inthe Wavy Navy... After the end of the war in Europe they were towed...

D-Day: Royal Army Ordnance Corps

The boy lay, trembling, on the sand, crying for his mother; Rigid with fear, not daring to move, scanning...

My Great Uncle: Sword Beach

On the 6th of June 1944, my Great Uncle Cyril, on my mother's side, faught on the beaches of Normady,...

My Recollections of D-Day 6th June 1944: Air Activity Over Colchester

At about 05.30hours on Tuesday 6th June the Johnson household was woken up by the noise of a siren coming...

Quick Decision by Naval Captain that Saved Many Lives

I was a Signalman onboard HMS Gorgan. Our role was to sweep the area around Cherbourg for mines during the...

Wounded in Action

On D-Day I landed on Sword beach with B-Coy. We landed in Swindon, but it was full, so we were sent by...

D Day: The Sixth of June

7:25 we landed in the midst of bullets and bombs we raced up the beach with our friends and colleagues...

D Day

I have two very powerful memories,the first on D Day 6th June 1944,I remember seeing the hundreds of...

D Day Preparation - Civil Nursing Reserve

At the beginning of the War I was 18 yearsof age and had already joined the British Red Cross Society and...

Getting There: 13th/18th Hussars on D-Day

Getting There: 13th/18th Hussars on D-Day...

Memories of the Royal Navy

John McDonald was called up to the Royal Navy in 1943 after working in the cutting room at BMK carpet...

Before the Troops Hit the Beaches: Bomb Disposal on D-Day

He was also in Brussels when the bomb he was about to defuse went off and it buried him alive for 2...

Poem: 'They Will Never Forget Sword Beach'

He played until his bagpipes took a bullet, the Germans all thought he was mad, he miraculously never got...

Young Girls Memory of D-Day

Entered on behalf Shirley Jeanne Bridger All this took place at Widley, 9/10 miles north Portsmouth. The...

A Southampton Schoolgirl on D-Day

They were replaced by a convoy of white soldiers, incuding Julius Ruske, a German who had become a...

Decoys for D-Day

In May-June 1944 when I was about 15 I used to cycle to Northgate Grammar School along Heath Road and...

Cliff Cobley: Anti U Boat Escort

A week before D Day we went to Dartmouth in Devon where we picked up American Officers, they stayed on our...

DLI on D-Day

My father, David Wallis, landed on D-Day with the Durham Light Infantry, part of the 50th Div. The Germans...

D-Day Memories: Listening to the Radio in Perry near Wingham

Peggy's husband Bill was in the air force and Peggy was living in a cottage in Perry with her baby son...

D-Day

I dashed to the window to see the amazing sight of a sky full of aircraft towing gliders, so grabbed my...

D-Day Landings

He was coxswaining a Landing Craft and, having been released from the ship he was travelling on, his and...

D-Day, a Son's Remembrance of his Father's Launch by Brian Ward.

D-Day, a Son's Remembrance of his Father's Launch by Brian Ward. As with the best laid plans of men...