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Everyone has a story inside them... make sure yours gets heard!
Inside Lives SECOND WORLD WAR

There are stories all around us, and everyone has one to tell.
Here at the Inside Lives Project you've been coming in to our recording studios and telling us your
stories of
World War 2
black watch War Dog
As a teenage piper in the Black Watch, Mick had an encounter with a War Dog!
  gas mask The False Alarm
Barbara can remember the day that World War 2 broke out like it was yesterday.
submarine Submarine Chaser
Bill spent a week on a training course at HMS Osprey.
  paint brush and pots Remembered
Sylvia was just a little girl when World War 2 broke out.
soldier Super Trooper
Ken was just a young man when he joined the paratroopers.
  cross Wounded in Germany
Tom was gravely wounded during the closing stages of World War II.
Remembrance reef From Boy To Man
Ernest's D-Day story shows that a lot of war stories are glorified.

  Dick Rutter Whites Of Their Eyes
Dick's story demonstrates the vulnerability of soldiers.
Jeff Elson's grandfather

Grandfather
Jeff's interest in World War One & Two came about by accident...literally.

  medals Into D-Day On A Bike
Albert's story has to be heard to be believed.
Entrance to the life-saving shelter.

A Night To Remember
Brian's mother's swift actions, when the air raid siren failed, saved his life.

  Pamela Tittensor

Happy Days
When Pamela was sent to Wales as an evacuee she didn't know what to expect .

An exotic looking Peter Cotton. Try A Telescope
Memories of the recovery from an accident still bring a smile to Peter's face.
  Else Lindner today Back In Anger
As a young Jew, Else fled Nazi Germany for England.
Sonja's only picture of her dear father No FairyTale
An act of bravery by an auntie Sonja would never meet.
  Sydney Morris in his British Army uniform Lest We Forget
Sydney's father came to Britain many years before the Nazi rise to power
explossion A Moment In History
How many of us can say we witnessed history in the making?
  Ian Walker Internal Spies
Did you ever wonder who lived in your house before you did?
rat Rats
Dorothy had an idyllic childhood in stoke-on-Trent
  soldier And more...
You're sending in more accounts by the month

 

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