Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
There were stories in the newspaper we could now afford to buy about black-clad Romans bombing the...
Lt Hutchinson had to take out a fighting patrol, to try and get a German prisoner, and he picked his trusty...
In August 1944, just two months after the D-Day landing in Normandy, I was posted to R.A.F. Fairford in...
A stay at Duff House In the summer of 1942 it was decided that we, along with the 4th Battalion, would...
The British sent parachutes with food containers inside but the Germans had advanced and when they were...
On the move across Europe As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium...
All we had to do was to secure the landing zones for the paras, and then belt off to Arnhem and the...
We were tended by all Dutch doctors, sisters and maids, supervised by their German overseers and were in...
During training a Sgt of the Para's came looking for volunteers, 3 mates and I volunteered when they...
After initial training at the depot I went to the training battalion and then was sent to the demonstration...
The British 2nd Army had been given the task of making the corridor wider and safer, and George's unit...
Somehow four of us got separated from the platoon - Snowy Wheatley, Fred Weatherley, Lol Colbrooke and me....
I flew over to Arnhem from Down Ampney on the second day as 1st Pilot of a Horsa glider, towed by a...
Because the advance of the Allies in Europe was coming to a halt through lack of supplies, General...
About three months before D-Day, John and a few of his friends were having a quiet drink in a pub called...
We were fitting winches on an Albermal aircraft used for towing Hotspur gliders training paratroopers when...
My father, Edmund F. Scrivener served with 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, Air Landing Brigade, at...
From the base we supplied petrol, water and arms to the front lines. The next day I explained that there...
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