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Interview with G V Korner
G Korner completed his training as a rear gunner and was posted to RAF Leconfield. As gunner he witnessed other aircraft above heading into their bombing run and their bombs just missing his aircraft. He also witnessed aircraft being shot down and on…
Interview with Beryl Fitter
Beryl Fitter grew up in Birmingham during the war. She recalls the many hours spent in the Anderson or Morrison shelter. She also experienced the Black Market which supplemented the rations. The house across from them was bombed. An incendiary landed…
Interview with Norman Rutherford. Two
Norman Rutherford discusses his schooling during the war and how few male teachers remained. He recollects the scarcity of food and the blackout. As a child he was briefly sent from his home in Cleethorpes to stay with his music teacher at…
Interview with Norman Rutherford. One
Norman Rutherford was born in Cleethorpes in 1931 and remembers as an eight year old child discussing with his cousin as to whether there would be a war. Norman recalls the sound of the air raid sirens and learning his multiplication tables in the…
Interview with Elizabeth Ann Rogers
Elizabeth's earliest memories include the family’s Anderson shelter, later replaced by a Morrison shelter where she slept during air raids. She recalls the sound of planes overhead and the impact of nearby bombings, including shattered windows and…
Harold Scott
Three-quarter length image of an airman wearing battledress with half brevet standing in front of a blast shelter. Submitted with caption 'Harold Scott'.
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Frank Pearson
Full length image of an airman wearing battledress with half brevet standing in front of a blast shelter. Submitted with caption 'Frank Pearson'.
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Dennis Locke
Full length image of an airman wearing battledress with half brevet, with hand in pocket standing in front of the entrance to a blast shelter. Submitted with caption ' Dennis Locke'.
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Athol Saywell
Full length image of am airman wearing battledress with half brevet standing holding frozen branches in front of a frost covered bush. Blast shelter entrance behind him. Submitted with caption 'Athol Saywell'.
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Alan Rea
Three-quarter length image of an airman wearing battledress with half brevet standing in front of the entrance to a blast shelter.
Submitted with caption 'Alan Rea'.
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Dorothy May's journal
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Letters written to be read by her husband on his return from the war. She discusses events in Freiburg, and her feelings about them.
Dorothy May was an English woman married to a German national, Teddy, serving in the German army during WW2. The…
Dorothy May was an English woman married to a German national, Teddy, serving in the German army during WW2. The…
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
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Pages 1 and 2 are missing. Jack writes about his wife and daughters having to go into shelters during raids.
Dorniers attack an English Airfield
Artist's impression of an attack on a British airfield. Luftwaffe bombers are shown making a low level attack on two fighters, a Shell fuel tanker and a hangar. British forces are shown injured and taking cover in a bunker. A description, in German,…
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his family
Writes that he was off duty after church. Says that he had received his uniform and after alterations was now wearing it. Lists some of the equipment he has been issued with. Writes about air raid and going to shelter. Gives short description of his…
Airman by car
An airman wearing greatcoat and side cap standing with foot on running board of a car registration 'GX2297' holding a newspaper, In the background a Nissen hut, to the right the entrance to a blast shelter.
Interview with Reginald John Herring
Reg Herring was living in London with his father and elder brother at the start of the war. His father built a shelter that collapsed after a heavy rainfall. Reg was evacuated to Sizewell and then to near Birmingham. After the war Reg returned to…
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Gwendoline Thickett grew up in Rotherham and was a young schoolgirl when the Second World War began. She was in Sunday School at her local church when the news of the declaration of war was announced. Her parents had already begun to prepare for…
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his experience of finding a German butterfly bomb close to his home. Geoff described how, after…
Interview with Patricia Cook
Patricia Cook was born in Lincoln, one of eight children, during the Second World War. She recalls having to sleep four to a bed and having to share their house with complete strangers. They had the Morrison shelter table in their front room. The…
Gerard Kilburn
Gerard Kilburn standing in a hole, dug for an Anderson shelter in the garden. A clothes line of washing can be seen in the top of the photograph.
A girl at an entrance of an Anderson shelter
A girl standing at the entrance of an Anderson shelter.
Woman at the entrance of an Anderson shelter
A woman standing at the entrance of an Anderson shelter.
Three people in an Anderson shelter
Three people looking out of the entrance of an Anderson shelter. One man is wearing a helmet.
Some memories of the war
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Memoir detailing a teenage girl's experiences of the war. The document details experiences of evacuation, the blackouts, sounds of the war during air raids and what they saw on the streets of Liverpool.
Interview with Carla Fantini
After leaving school, Carla Fantini started working as telegraph operator, which she found a gratifying and thoroughly enjoyable occupation. She describes the bombing war in Milan, stressing widespread destruction and ravaging fires. She recalls the…