Stories categorised in 'Resistance and Occupation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Some prisoners were recaptured by the Germans and sent to Germany, but many joined the rapidly forming...
The Italian authorities have supplied me with three ordnance maps of the Biella, Aosta and Ivrea regions...
My mother's fierce indignation at ‘foreigners' taking over her beloved island flared out one...
The Japanese did not speak Dutch and very few spoke English so conversations were mostly in Malay. We...
The only news we were able to get of the war came from the many soldiers taking refuge on our stairs and...
We flew in a formation of 40 Mosquitos to attack German shipping in Porsgrunn Harbour in Norway. Ron was...
Some of the lads were talking of trying to get back to Stalag 8B but Bluey and I had other ideas, the...
I lived in Caen, a city in Normandy, before the start of the war, and became involved in the French...
Awakened by gun fire I sheltered under our dinning table whilst Japanese bombers rained their bombs down on...
On some signs were visible between cracked dirt: 'Town administration -Vienna', a red one parked...
Our sergeants McCulloch, Newman, Morrison, Hill and McMillan were billeted together at the northern edge of...
When it was dark, Pierre took me into his farmhouse and gave me a substantial meal and a bed for the night....
While we pitched our tents round the outside of the wall surrounding the churchyard, the British force,...
A third plane was supposed to have crashed in the Great Belt outside Korsør on the same night as the...
Additionally, one of the most important religious feasts was 29th June, the Feast Day of Saints Peter and...
After a long delay the allies and the German Reichskommissar agreed to the dropping of food by 235...
The Flt Engineer, Sgt Bob Drongeson, the Bombaimer, Sgt Bernard Taylor, Navigator, Warrant Officer Nik Zuk,...
It consisted of a variety of eatables from tinned fruit to sausages, that is, Soya links dehydrated...
My Dad and four uncles fought in the Albanian mountains, successfully against the Italian invasion and then...
We, in our travels, encountered various partisan leaders all of whom begged us for arms to fight, they...
I was seventeen years old when the Germans came, for a while they treated us well, my mother spoke German...
The Germans in that part of Czechoslovakia, Moravia and the Sudetenland which was the border between...
Jack and his sister Chana travelled with a group of children that left by train in March 1939. Jack's...
At the beginning of 1939 cousins of my mothers arrived in our town from Permazenc, Germany, and told us...
Austria — the “Austrian Auschluss” - in which several of her family perished, she...
I told her 'yes' and informed her that during the war I had lived two hundred yards away from the...
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