I suppose that is why I write this now, forty nine years to the day since witnessing an event that brought a new and terrible element to the horror of war - the forerunner of the cruise missile - the ...

For most of the war (apart from being evacuated to Ashtead, Surrey, from September 1939 to July 1940) I lived with my parents in S.E. London (Overhill Road, East Dulwich, SE22). Being quite high on a ...

Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest in 1944 on the way to its target in London. Project leader Colin Welch told Live Science that ...

In Alvaston, with its modest-sized homes, many people volunteered to take the London V1 bombing campaign evacuees in the summer of 1944 without being asked. At Brighton Road centre, it was stated that ...

Memories of the blitz, V1’s and V2’s in London For most of the war (apart from being evacuated to Ashtead, Surrey, from September 1939 to July 1940) I lived with my parents in S.E. London (Overhill ...