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People's War: Your Stories

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The BBC People's War project has been gathering hundreds of people's stories about life during World War Two.

From all walks of life and on all sorts of subjects, there's plenty of fascinating stories to explore.

Below are links to some of the stories from and about South West Wales - to find out how you can add yours, visit the People's War website.


  • Experiences during the War Years
  • Flashy American Ties
  • The Blitz on Swansea Docks
  • Our Playgrounds were Bombed Building Sites.
  • My Parents and there family at war
  • A German Soldier's Story
  • Anonymous Lady in Wimbledon [Anon.]
  • Evacuation to South Wales
  • Fire Fire Everywhere
  • Memories of WW2
  • Springbourne Ladies Remember (Betty & Moira)
  • Miracles do happen!
  • To Catch a Policeman
  • Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - part 2
  • My Mother's Letter about the Blitz in Cardiff
  • Return to St Athan.
  • Derek's Evacuation Number 2
  • From South East London to South Wales
  • Wartime in Port Talbot
  • Sunderland Flying Boats
  • Announcing the War
  • The Swansea Blitz - Part 1
  • The Swansea Blitz - Part 3
  • Swansea At War
  • Three Nights Blitz - Swansea Town February 1941
  • Working in the Munitions Factory
  • Parachutes to Knickers!
  • Operation Jantzen
  • Enid's RAF Memories
  • Bevin Boy
  • A Young Boy's War: Chapter 3
  • The changing face of Childhood: Evacuated to Wales
  • Evacuated - from London to South Wales
  • So Young, But What a Memory
  • My War - 1939-1940: Childhood Memories of Glasgow and South Wales
  • A starry night in Swansea 1941 Part 1
  • War Memoir: Evacuated to Kent and Wales
  • Childhood in West Wales
  • Black Grass: Childhood Memories of RAF St Athan
  • Evacuees and Stew!
  • The Twins - Our Life As Evacuees
  • Some Memories of Schooldays in Swansea during WW2
  • Being Evacuated: From Acton to Glamorgan
  • Attack on Swansea, 1941
  • Life in a Police Station
  • Fun in the Country and a New Family in Wales by Louisa Small (nee Kingsbury)
  • Dads Army
  • Childhood Memories of the War
  • Cliff Cobley: Anti U Boat Escort
  • Nursing in the war
  • That Evening Full Moon - February 1941
  • School Days at Gowerton Around 1940
  • Bedford during the War
  • Lord Haw Haw and the Catholic Church.
  • A Starry Night in Swansea 1941 part 3
  • Malnutrition Milk
  • Some Wartime Memories of the Railways and RAF
  • Running the Camp Cinemas
  • Gwen, Ken and the Royal Navy
  • Land Army Life
  • Stan Martin's WW2 story
  • Morehall School Posters


  • Read hundreds of stories of wartime life

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