Battle of the Bulge & Rhine Crossings 1945

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 12: Hiding Part Two

The head of the family was the manager of the local public baths and consequently had frequent dealings...

Recollections of 6thJune 1944: Before and after.

That's how we landed on Gold beach when most of our Acre's were already off the beach and on their...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 17c

Some time later, with the barrage continuing with unabated fury, and as we bumped slowly and laboriously...

Memoirs of a Gunner - Chapter 6b - Harry Wood

The next morning Lucy was back with one of the officers, it appeared her family wanted representatives of...

Royal Dragoons and the German Retreat in Lower Saxony

From Langenbrugge we could look down on the village of Bodenteich in the distance 5 k away, and could see...

A Condensed Summary of My War Years By Albert Charles Walker

We also did fire watching at the Factory in case German Aircraft dropped Incendiary Bombs. For more details...

Sid and Jean Shorten - Wartime Memories: Chapter 7

On the 24th.of May I was given a 72 hour leave to Brussels, travelled by truck to Wesel and then by train...

An Experience to Remember

Following the rout of the German army at the Falaise Gap, where the fleeing columns were mercilessly...

War Memories: Royal Engineer in North Africa and Europe

We had a victory parade in Tripoli marching down the main street behind bands of bagpipes, but after that...

An Army Nurse in Belgium and Germany

Then after D Day, I was with the Army as a nurse from Normandy to Germany....

Into Battle Behind the Bagpipes

This went on for sometime then as infantry was short of men so a new battalion was formed in 1943 -...

The Sappers Story

As the flood waters receded this once ‘floating’ Bailey gradually dried out, as the pontoons...

"Hanging Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line"

Just before Bremen, after we'd moved into Germany we saw a British officer walk up to this house with...

Walter McElvain's Letters From World War II: Somewhere in Germany.

Dear Henrietta, Sylvia, and Ross, You no doubt have been wondering what ever became of a certain Russian,...

From the Rhine to the Teutoburger Wald

These units together with all their support groups were part of the Allied Forces who crossed the River...

Edward's War in the RAF and the Infantry

One of greatest shows I've ever seen was in Dusseldorf - in their stadium for a surrender ceremony -the...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 24: Eindhoven - March 1945 Holland - Into Germany `Across the Rhine on the Twenty Nine'

Only five days behind Monty, whose front line troops crossed the Rhine near Wesel, North of the Ruhr, on...

The Journey

The impact threw both pilots from the cockpit and tore our harnesses from the side-wall of the glider....

Another April Shower

We left the start line at dawn on ‘Operation Destroyed’ to clear the Germans from the...

Fred Spicer's Journey

After the liberation of Middle Beers we spent 2 days travelling to Arnham, this was longer than we had...

Revenge for Supper

It had windows back and front and there, silhouetted between the windows, I saw two German soldiers pumping...

Sergeant White

White was about to through another grenade after him, but before he could the German turned and fired. My...

Missing over Germany

These daylight attacks on the Rhine and Munster, by a medium force of 178 and 160 aircraft respectfully,...

MEMORIES

I was called up in 1942 so I decided to join the Navy;my three other brothers were serving in the Army and...

A Bonus of Sixty Years

Happy Valley’, as the Rhine/Ruhr valley was nicknamed by aircrew, was not a favourite destination, as...

My "Victoria Cross"

My Victoria Cross By Charles Freer. C Freer my job was Driver i/c of a Sherman Tank carrying the Officer...