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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
  • Lucky bus stop.
  • Fish and chips for Monty
  • Our Playgrounds were Bombed Building Sites.
  • My Parents and there family at war
  • Singing for the Troops
  • A German Soldier's Story
  • Anonymous Lady in Wimbledon [Anon.]
  • Pembroke Dock bombings
  • Evacuation to South Wales
  • World War II Changed My Life ,as it did many others, in so many ways, some good, some bad
  • Jim Humphreys- Part 1 of 2
  • Fire Fire Everywhere
  • Memories of WW2
  • Springbourne Ladies Remember (Betty & Moira)
  • Miracles do happen!
  • RAF 218 Sqd. - Salvage Unit - Southampton - 1940
  • To Catch a Policeman
  • WW2 Memories
  • Evacuation to Bedford and Llansadwrn
  • Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - part 2
  • Part 6 change for Cardiff
  • My Mother's Letter about the Blitz in Cardiff
  • Return to St Athan.
  • Evacuation to Llanelli and a Bomb in Edge Hill
  • Derek's Evacuation Number 2
  • Memories from Members of Astley Lunch Club, Worcestershire.
  • From South East London to South Wales
  • Further to 'Gallantry Again!' (Swansea Docks and the Blitz)
  • Wartime in Port Talbot
  • Evacuation to Wales from Liverpool
  • Sunderland Flying Boats
  • A Wartime Romance
  • Announcing the War
  • Chopin in Swansea
  • The Swansea Blitz - Part 1
  • The Swansea Blitz - Part 3
  • The Swansea Blitz - Part 2
  • 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
  • Home and Away - Evacuated From Kensal Green to Wales
  • So Young, But What a Memory
  • A Teenage Evacuee's Story
  • My War - 1939-1940: Childhood Memories of Glasgow and South Wales
  • Nine year old Londoner
  • A starry night in Swansea 1941 Part 1
  • War Memoir: Evacuated to Kent and Wales
  • Wales: Where I Sheltered from the War
  • 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
  • My Experiences as an Evacuee
  • 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
  • Deep Duffryn 1944
  • Cliff Cobley: Anti U Boat Escort
  • Nursing in the war
  • Home Guard was sometimes dangerous
  • That Evening Full Moon - February 1941
  • School Days at Gowerton Around 1940
  • Gowerton's Contribution to World War II
  • Bedford during the War
  • Lord Haw Haw and the Catholic Church.
  • WW2: Seen through the eyes of a child in the Welsh Valleys.
  • A Starry Night in Swansea 1941 part 3
  • William's Story
  • A starry night in Swansea 1941 Part 2
  • Malnutrition Milk
  • Some Wartime Memories of the Railways and RAF
  • Running the Camp Cinemas
  • My First 24 Hour Pass in the WAAFS
  • Gwen, Ken and the Royal Navy
  • Land Army Life
  • Stan Martin's WW2 story
  • The Dogs of War
  • Morehall School Posters


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