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Interview with Inge Nicolis
Inge Nicolis, the daughter of a Swedish engineer faher and an Italian mother, reminisces about her wartime experiences in Milan. She stresses the sense of having been thrown into a tragedy and the anguish of not being able to evacuate Milan, on the…
Interview with an eye-witness of Milan bombings
The interviewee describes two bombings in the Sesto San Giovanni and Niguarda areas, which he eye-witnessed. During the first, he was in a basement adapted as underground shelter: he recollects women reciting the rosary and a queasy sensation in the…
Interview with Piero Fiorot
Piero Fiorot reminisces about his pre-war life in Sacile: schooling; fascist paramilitary training and indoctrination; curfews; rationing; and doing business in a tightly controlled, closed economic system. He contrasts the relatively tranquil life…
Interview with Alessandro Samorè
Alessandro Samorè recalls his early life in Milan, Domodossa, Portofino, and Santa Margherita Ligure. He also gives details of life in youth fascist organisations, playing with homemade fireworks, and attempts to assemble an improvised scuba gear.…
Interview with Gilberto Martina
Gilberto Martina recalls his childhood in Chiusaforte and in the Canal del Ferro area: disrupted schooling; fear of Germans; subsistence farming; saboteurs; and tells how one of his friends was killed by a bomb found in a pile of litter. He…
Interview with Lidia Vendramin
Lidia Vendramin recalls her childhood in Sacile, including details on her primary schooling, family, and town life. She contrasts the public manifestations of joy the day the war was declared, with the shock and dismay of her parents, whose lives had…
Interview with Francesco Bozzi
Francesco Bozzi recalls his military training followed by service in Greece. He describes harsh living conditions while in Germany-occupied Crete after September 1943: hard labour; scarce food; punishment; brutalities; being wounded while digging a…
Interview with Rinaldo Sarani
Rinaldo Sarani tells of the bombings of Pavia describing widespread damage at Borgo Ticino and people being extricated from rubble. He stresses the importance of bridges: Ponte della Ferrovia, Ponte Vecchio, Ponte dell’Impero, Ponte della Becca,…
Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant C)
The interviewee recollects his wartime experiences in Voghera. He claims he has always had the gift of sensing impending events, the first episode being when he told his mother that aircraft are approaching before, the siren had sounded, and…
Interview with Benito Colonna
Benito Colonna recalls the bombings of Rimini and other wartime experiences. He was with his mother when he witnessed the 1 November 1943 bombing: he saw aircraft approaching and bombing the town, targeting the railway station. People were…
Interview with Leontina Giovanetti
Leontina Giovanetti was born in 1913 and reminisces about her early life with three sisters, her father. who was a typographer and photographer, and her mother, a house-wife. She describes musical training at the Milan conservatory, stressing the…
Interview with Vera Willis
Vera Willis volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force because she wanted to be a driver. Her driving career in the RAF involved driving driving aircrew to dispersal.This content is available as embedded video:
Interview with Livia de Savorgnani Zanmarchi
Livia de Savorgnani Zanmarchi recalls her wartime experiences in Trieste, describes the bombing of 10 June 1944 and mentions the destruction of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie church and the Modiano card factory. She talks about the gruesome sight of…
Interview with Joy Joy. Two
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this item is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Interview with Germana Pisa
Germana reminisces about her comfortable evacuee life in Gualtieri, supported by local farmers who kept her family well supplied. She describes ditches used as makeshift shelters and daily life in Milan.
Leonard Cheshire answering questions
Question about human ability to cope with crisis objectively and whether there were any circumstances in which a nuclear war was morally justified. Cheshire provides his answers. Explains his rationale for atomic bombing of Japan. Question on use of…
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…
W Redding gunnery course notebook
Gives detailed technical notes on Frazer Nash, Bristol, and Boulton Paul electrical hydraulic turrets with diagrams. Followed by description and recognition details of Thunderbolt, Mosquito, Me 210, Beaufort, Blenheim, Ventura, Dauntless, He 177,…
Telegram to Arthur Mace's father from 78 Squadron
The telegram advises that his son is missing.
Interview with Arthur Mace
Recalls his being shot down, being taken as a prisoner of war, and conditions at a prisoner of war camp.
Operations board
An operations board with details for Operation Varsity. Lists stations involved, timings and numbers of aborted and missing aircraft. Reverse, printed 'A.M. Crown Copyright Reserved' and stamped '33 Group photographic section G326 30 March 1945'.