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February 2010 Edition
‘Coup de Main’ Task for ‘B’ Company by Capt High Clark MC - At the end of 1944, I was commanding No 19 Platoon, ‘B’ Company, 2nd Oxfordshire & Bucks Lt Infantry..... We were preparing for an airborne invasion....
The Convoy Veteran - by James Hinton - HMS Scourge arrived two miles off Ouistreham, the first warship to arrive off the Sword Beaches on D-Day...
I Loved the Rural Life by Vera Read - The story of the Land Army and a young girl’s wish to work on a farm....
The Eagle that Landed - by the late Bertie Ginsberg - A Jewish Immigrant’s story, apprenticed to a diamond setters in Hatton Gardens and later to become a Glider Pilot in Operation Market Garden ......
My Introduction to the SOE by Philip Dawkins - The secret life of a radio operator and his fascination for wireless telegraphy then seconded to the Special Forces....
The Bombing of Amiens Jail by Jack & Bill Fairs - Twins Jack & Bill being keen photographers joined the RAF Reconnaissance Unit seeing service in Egypt, Greece, Crete and Palestine ....
It Happened to Me by Eric Catermole - The heartfelt story of a PoW and his long walk back from Stalag VIIA in Poland to relative safety....
Fog Bound in the Scheldt by Francis Pym - The story of a Sub Lieutenant getting supplies through the dangerous waters of the Scheldt for the invading armies heading into Antwerp....
The Landing at Salerno by Fred Collins - I was a Lance Corporal with the 9th Btn Royal Fusiliers in the landings at Salerno during September 1943 in hand-to-hand fighting with Gerry...
The Dunkirk Pocket by Dennis Egan - I served with the 145 D R Section, 2 Coy, 15th Air Formation Signals Regt, based at Epinoy Airfield with 138 Wing RAF...
PLUS several more short stories and Readers Letters - Newspaper clippings of 1945 and Finders Seekers....
May 2010 Edition
The Defence of Calais by William Harding - The Incredible story of a Bombardier with the Royal Artillery at Tilloy in Northern France and his determination to survive against a massive exchange with the German Army culminating in a shoot out with the enemy at the Citadel....
‘Iceberg 7’ gets Underway by Tom Warden - On 16 September 1944 HMS Formidable sailed for the Far East accompanied by the destroyers Whirlwind and Wrangler..... “Naval battles don’t get much better than this”.
Working on the Land at Upwey by Gwendoline Hampton - I joined the Women’s Land Army working on a farm at Upwey near Weymouth....
Trapped in St Valery by Reginald Driver - On 21 April 1940 I was sent to Northern France and had two month’s active service before the Germans pushed us back to the sea at St Valery-en-Caux....
Hitting Back by Freddie Lewis - After training I became a Spitfire pilot and engaged the enemy on several occasions culminating with several skirmishes with the V1 flying bombs....
2819 Squadron by Eric Westrope - Following my early days at Warmwell, Dorset, I was posted to RAF Chelveston, Northants, in September 1941 to join 819 Defence Squadron, later renumbered 2819 Squadron RAF Regiment during 1942.
Back on the Home Front by Peter Bone - I was a gunner in a Lancaster with Bomber Command - in fact, my squadron lost 19 bombers and 126 crew in my seven month tour of Ops from October 1944 to April 1945...
The Bouncing Tractor by Hubert Beavis - I was with Coastal Forces with the British Pacific Fleet ending up in Japan at the end of the war ....
Into Battle with a Wooden Gun by Geoffrey Pulzer - In 1943, I was a Member of the 11th Armoured Division and promoted to Corporal and given command of a Sherman Tank with a wooden gun. Our journey to Normandy was quite uneventful....
PLUS Readers Letters - Newspaper clippings of 1945 and Finders Seekers..... (in every edition)
August 2010 Edition
The War in the Air - During the Battle of Britain, Pilot Officer Robert Eric Jones was serving with 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron. This account is one of bravery and the trauma of seeing fellow colleagues shot down in the many dogfights that took place in those dark years of the war....
Foresight joins Pedestal by George Green - The story of one of the most amazing convoys in the war in getting the much needed supplies through to Malta...
The Dealali Trap by Frederick Willcox - My story begins in Barrasat near Calcutta where we received a great deal of equipment and obtained additional vehicles to take part in the invasion of Singapore and Malaya....
A Wartime WAAF by Pheobe Milton - My training involved a period at RAF Cranwell on VHF Radio D/F equipment including the dreaded Morse Code....
A Boy in the Blitz by Roy Bartlett - Living in Ealing during the Luftwaffe Blitz on the capital in 1940 we had endured the incessant drone of enemy aircraft.... for the past 49 nights.....
Remembering the Battle of Britain 1940 ....Two personal accounts of the first momentous raid on 7 September 1940 and a schoolgirl’s story of her evacuation to Cirencester...
Requiem for the Infantry by Tom Kelley - I was in the 7th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regt landing on the Normandy Beaches in June 1944. 12 Platoon, C Coy, consisted of 35 lads, mostly aged 19 or 20. We first went into battle at Epron on 8 July....
The Cockney Glider Pilot - Frank Ashleigh took part in Operation Market Garden after training to become a pilot on Hotspur gliders then finally on another course to fly the heavy Horsa glider towed by Whitney bombers...
The Secret Port by Peter Butcher - The WW1 story of my late father, who was sent to the Waterways and Docks branch of the Royal Engineers in 1916. His destination was the Secret Port of - in Kent, a site of considerable proportions, of which no trace today exists....
PLUS Readers Letters - Newspaper clippings of 1944 and Finders Seekers.....
November 2010 Edition
Battle at Sidi Barrani by the late Lt Col B C Haggard
I commanded the 2nd Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment from April 1940 leading it to the campaigns in Egypt and Syria ....
The Night the City Burned by the late Sam Chauveau - Sam had been in the fire service during the period known as the Phoney War. When war was declared he applied and was accepted by the RAF to be a rear gunner, but he Fire Service refused to release him. Once the Blitz began he was moved to sub-station 36Y t the London Stock Exchange as a Junior Officer....
Kings of Lampedusa by Leslie Wright - In June ’43 I was a Sgt W/Op Gunner serving with air sea rescue at Malta.... when, after losing their compass on a Swordfish, they landed at an island where the entire Italian garrison surrendered.....
Crash Landing in a Wimpy by Freddie Brown - It was during our crew training at 16 OTU, Upper Heyford, that we found ourselves flying from a satellite base at Barford St John in a Wellington on a high level bombing exercise....
A WAAFs High Life by Knowler Edmunds - The story of Bawdsey Manor the home of the first Home Chain radar stations and the role of Gretta Lovelady whose job was to climb the 200 foot wooden towers to carry out calibration of the equipment...
The Three Convoys by Vic Chanter - Daniel H Lownsdale was a US Liberty ship, just over 441 feet long and just less than 57 ft wide; she also sat high in the water - hardly missable in a convoy... This was my next assignment!
They’ll Never Believe Me by Reg Otter - In the unforgettable year of 1940, Britain stood alone against a ruthless enemy, up to then totally victorious, and brutal in their aims. I had just turned 15 years old and I had to leave school on the day war was declared.....
Entertaining the Troops by Bill Steed - Christmas 1944 was a special occasion for the lads of 148 Squadron and 110 MTU as we were entertained by George Formby at Tocra in North Africa...
News of Yesteryear - A regular feature of short articles from a Wartime Newspaper...