Crete

Memories of an Italian Naval Signalman Part Two - The North Cape of Crete and the sinking of the Colleoni

Of course our Gunnery Officer reckoned that the four salvos fired with our turret we hit one of them, we...

Memories of an Italian Naval Signalman Part Three - The loss of the Colleoni and rescue by a British ship. Shipped to Alexandri

Memories of an Italian Naval Signalman Part Three — The loss of the Colleoni and rescue by a British...

Six Years in the Marines

Pom-poms and Morse code After training I was sent to North Shields to erect guns on either side of the...

The March to Freedom

The men in this camp were sorted into working parties and my father found himself being sent to camp E586,...

Coincidence: During the Battle for Crete

In 1934 at school to improve my German, I was given a pen friend - Hans Müller from Stuttgart. I tried...

Tommy's War by Tom Barker

Tommy's War Part 9

Tommy's War Part 8: Sniper on Crete

Ben Waters: Six years in the RNVR.

Ben, as a Flotilla Officer, travelled on board the ‘A'6, which was captained by Lieutenant John...

A Soldier's Reminiscences of World War 2

Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...

My Life My War - Chapter 10a

It was a heartening sound as the four inch anti aircraft guns on the deck above us carried out their...

Prisoner of War

We were on Crete for quite a while before the Germans moved us, then we went to Greece and were there for...

War Veteran Returns To Crete

2nd World War veteran John King returned to Crete — the scene of his most vivid war memories this...

Alf Mitchell’s War as a Landing Craft Coxswain

Although the conditions were pretty grim Alf's experience enabled him to land his troops and get off...

A Common Soldiers Story

However, by 1939 Britain had declared war on Germany and Grandpa was one of the first to be ‘called...

Battle of Crete

The sky was black with German Stuka planes they bombed and blasted us, terrifying attack, to have one Stuka...

Being Shot Down, and part of the Great Escape

I was an officer pilot in a fighter squadron during the Second World War, first of all in France when we...

Fleet Air Arm in the Battle for Crete

Battle for Crete: Maleme airfield May 20,1941 Although the Fleet Air Arm airfield, with its aircraft and...

Prisoner on Crete

What we had to fight with on Crete: half of the chaps didn't have rifles, those with rifles didn't...

Kit Tanner: A Hero of the Battle of Crete

John Cookson was serving on the Fiji when it was sunk and witnessed Kit Tanner's bravery and wanted to...

H.M.S.Fiji

He was rescued by the destroyer H.M.S. Kandahar which along with H.M.S.Kingston saved a large number of his...

Partizans

1941 I was 17 WW2 had hit Greece and making its way over to Crete, , the Germans soldiers now occupied the...

Crete stopped Germany Winning the War

If it hadn't been for the Battle of Crete Germany would've won the war because for one thing we...

The Thornton Abbey Ghost

Then there wus the time lait wun arternoon when a lad was playin’ in‘t field just oot side...