The Wartime Memories Project- Guestbook

Name: James Harbord
Visited: Thu May 30 12:16:55 2002
E-Mail: j.harbord@ntlworld.com
Home Page URL:http://www.geocities.com/familiar_uk/index.html
no, uk
Comments: I am interested in 2 Group Bomber command especially Watton 1940. Siege of Malta. Burma RAF Blenheims http://www.mysite.freeserve.com/blenheim

Name: laura
Visited: Wed May 29 09:58:45 2002
E-Mail: ljricha123@aol.com
no, england
Comments: great . really interesting.

Name: PAM JAMES
Visited: Wed May 29 08:27:57 2002
E-Mail: sj004c7073@blueyonder.co.uk
NO, ENGLAND
Comments: Hi,im just trying to find out any information on my father.His name was Frank Garfield,and was in The South Staffs.He was involved in a 'operation' called Market Garden in Holland.Unfortunatly he lost a leg in this exercise.Is there any one out there who knew of him? Or was in the same regiment as him? I would appreciate any copies of photos of this regiment. Many Thanks Pam. Wonderful site,we will never forgot those who died for 'US'

Name: John Phillips
Visited: Tue May 28 13:07:09 2002
E-Mail: philljohn@silk.net
Yes, UK but since age 60 retired in Canada
Comments: Hi Friends, This is my second contribution to this extraordinary web-site. After having read every contribution to date I would now like to dedicate this entry to all of those contributors who expressed their appreciations for the efforts given by ordinary folk like me during the hostilities of the 1940 era, whether they were civilians or service personnel. To our young readers I would say`never glorify war or regret that you were not a participant`. Having written my personal memoirs for my children and grandchildren I still vividly recal the austerities, fear and horror of those times both as a civilian and in 1942 a serviceman. I also remember with equal clarity the `Espree de Corps`,Camaraderie, and neghbourliness shown by the ordinary folk of that era. At 80 years I now regret that the latter does not exist today. Regards to all, Jay

Name: Gerald T Dore
Visited: Tue May 28 10:20:42 2002
E-Mail: jerrydore@yahoo.com
USA
Comments: looking for pow camps in the USA let me know if you can help smile Jesus loves you Jerry Dore

Name: Matthew
Visited: Tue May 28 07:42:22 2002
E-Mail: Baker@hotmail/AOL
YES, England
Comments: ACE

Name: jordanne king
Visited: Mon May 27 12:36:27 2002
E-Mail: kingj561@thegrid.org.uk
jamaica

Name: John Francis Richter
Visited: Sun May 26 13:41:19 2002
E-Mail: gyrene-doc@webtv.net
Home Page URL:John Francis Richter, Gyrene Doc
Yes!, U.S.A.
Comments: Hi Angela! - Hope all is well! -- (My Memorial Day Offering) - To those who have made the supreme sacrifice for this country: May you all "REST IN PEACE"!! -- To those of you who have survived the various conflicts in the service of this GREAT NATION: "WELCOME HOME,BROTHERS"!! - HM1 USN(Ret) - Guadalcanal (1942) - Cape Gloucester (1943-1944) - Korea (1950) - 1stMarine Div.FMF - SEMPER FI!! - GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Name: Dave Simpson
Visited: Sat May 25 14:36:06 2002
E-Mail: WELLINGTONSOCKS@HOTMAIL.COM
no, England
Comments: I would like to thank all the generation at home and abroad who gave their lives for us

Name: alan martin
Visited: Sat May 25 08:07:26 2002
E-Mail: indiaguide@hotmail
no, U.K.
Comments: this site has raised my hopes of hearing something about my painfully missed father who was killed at work when i was 10 years old Horace Frederick Martin 3 commando spent 3 years in stalag 8b here's hoping and thanks anyway for reading this far

Name: Nathan Leigh
Visited: Fri May 24 14:40:25 2002
E-Mail: nleigh@sd305.k12.id.us
no, USA
Comments: I am searching for crewmates who served on board the SC748 in the South Pacific in 1942-1944. Where are Jim "Heenie" Heenman, ___ Radtke "Rat", ___ Dierdorf "Flags", Henry "Hank" Mancini, and ___ Cantino "Fingers"? These men and others served with my father Mentor "Pappy" Leigh.

Name: Tina
Visited: Fri May 24 04:05:45 2002
Home Page URL:http://www.angebote-lastminute.de/tuerkei.
Germany
Comments: Hallo, Eure Seite ist echt Toll! Bei der Suche nach Informationen hab ich eure Seite in einer Suchmaschine gefunden. Gr?sse aus Bergheim Tina

Name: Robert
Visited: Tue May 21 23:00:16 2002
E-Mail: robert27@t-omline.de
Home Page URL:http://www.u79.de/doku4.html
Germany
Comments: Sch?ne Seite, gute Infos! Gr??e aus K?ln

Name: John Phillips
Visited: Tue May 21 17:08:53 2002
E-Mail: philljohn@silk.net
Yes, Britain
Comments: Served with RAF 1942 to 1947. Following initial training embarked on troopship SS Argentina from Gourock during May 1943 (Wish that I could remember the actual date). After a short stay in transit camps in Durban and Bombay final destinations were India, Burma, Singapore and then in 1946 back to Calshot with 230 Flying Boat squadron. This is an excellent site. Many thanks Webmaster, Jay

Name: Andrew Morgan
Visited: Tue May 21 14:16:27 2002
E-Mail: morgasm_1@hotmail.com
No, England
Comments: This page was very useful to my Year 9 history project. I have decided to present to the rest of my class a factual insight to Home Guard during World War 2. Your information and memories have come in much use for me, and most likely many other children around the globe. Thank You for helping me and the whole of Britain in the War. Your efforts were not unrecognised.

Name: Janet Andrew
Visited: Tue May 21 12:16:51 2002
E-Mail: andrewij@tiscali.co.uk
No, UK
Comments: Located my uncle in the cwgc pages- very useful as nothing was known in the family as to the date he died or where he was buried.

Name: STEVE BABER
Visited: Tue May 21 11:26:27 2002
E-Mail: b17.aaf_100thbg@btopenworld
no, Near Bristol, England
Comments: Enjoyed all of what I have looked at, I will be looking again as it's to much to take in all the info in one shot. Good work, Keep it up

Name: tiffany mealey
Visited: Mon May 20 15:23:05 2002
E-Mail: da_little_munchkin@hotmail.com
i wasent alive yet , canada
Comments: this is a really good book i wish i could have seen my grandfothers picture and he still stands today to be a great 74 year old man still walking not in a wheel chair a godbless him

Name: William T. Minor
Visited: Fri May 17 20:14:13 2002
E-Mail: bminor@truman.edu
Yes, United States
Comments: Dear Sir: I think you have a very interesting site and presentation. I was a pilot in the 445th BG, 703rd Sq flying a B-24 the "Gremlins Roost" out of England. I was shot down 5 January 1944 and a POW at Stalag Luft 1. I would like to respond to those who comment about their relatives not talking about their WW11 experiences. After WW11 the majority of those who had been in combat, POW, etc. were anxious to get on with their lives, and most people were not eager to hear a war story. In some instances they felt that only someone who had shared their experience could understand and feel the pain from these experiences. It was and is not a matter of being selfish but rather an unfortunate witholding of emotion that it seems that many younger people cannot relate to. I believe that although many would understandably like to know more of these things they should at the same time be more considerate of those people who lost their youth for the freedom we enjoy today. Thank you. Bill

Name: SEB
Visited: Thu May 16 04:31:25 2002
E-Mail: SEB@AOL.COM
Home Page URL:WWW.YAHOO.COM
Hell nO, iPSWITCH
Comments: HELLO

Name: John Hatfield
Visited: Wed May 15 11:13:08 2002
E-Mail: cherokee4579r@hotmail.com
USA
Comments: I arrived At RAF Brize Norton in August 1950 Our Barracks still Had holes in the ceiling Spitfires, Hurricanes, Metors, and Gliders in Storage there was still a strong present of the second world war. Rationing was still in effect, and the bombed out building in London it left a lasting impression on me. so much that i spent almost 40 years there and married two of your lovely ladies

Name: Joe Gilbert
Visited: Tue May 14 16:28:24 2002
E-Mail: joekofc4@adelphia.net
yes, usa

Name: Pete Williams
Visited: Mon May 13 23:55:03 2002
E-Mail: Williams6479pete@aol.com
Yes, England
Comments: I hope that this website expands. Am now 82 and facinated that so many people want to hear about wartime experiences. I was in KRRC and POW in Stalag 7A Moosberg and later 8B until end of war. Taken prisoner on Crete in 1941.Few of us left now I expect but it would be wonderful to talk to someone who was there.Have several photos of other POWs mainly Australian and New Zealand prisoners and a couple of IDs if anyone interested in seeing.

Name: bob
Visited: Mon May 13 10:39:25 2002
Home Page URL:www.yorkrv.com
yes, usa
Comments: Very interesting stie

Name: Paul Harmens
Visited: Thu May 9 04:17:48 2002
E-Mail: harmensp@home.nl
Home Page URL:http://www.zwolle40-45.nl
Zwolle (Holland)

Name: anna mortan
Visited: Mon May 6 23:57:43 2002
E-Mail: wave_woman23@hotmail.com
Home Page URL:\
no, new zealand

Name: Clarence Wilhite
Visited: Sun May 5 15:42:37 2002
E-Mail: wilhite@dexter.net
yes, United States
Comments: I am looking for information about the 52nd field troop 1 st platoon. This was my troop, Iwould like to hear from some of the men i met there.I was a medic.

Name: Natalie H-M
Visited: Sun May 5 08:28:47 2002
E-Mail: g2bme4eva@hotmail.com
No, England
Comments: Wow you guys who lived through the war are amazing and fascinating to learn about!

Name: Margaret Sheridan
Visited: Sat May 4 17:43:58 2002
E-Mail: margaret@alveleyhistory.co.uk
Home Page URL:www.alveleyhistory.co.uk
no, UK
Comments: Hi there, I have'nt visited your webiste for quite a while and I must say it as really expanded- keep up the good work- it is really excellent !! Best Wishes, Margaret

Name: JOHN WALTERS
Visited: Mon Apr 29 14:29:16 2002
E-Mail: mjwalters@55hotmail.com
no, england
Comments: I found your website very imprsive,Im trying to find information on World war11 gun inplacements on the west coast of Yorkshire, If any one can help me find this information i would be most gratefull,Please E.M.

Name: Jill
Visited: Mon Apr 29 11:03:56 2002
E-Mail: jill@guillemot.co.uk.co
Home Page URL:http://guillemot.co.uk.co
no, UK
Comments: I am looking for information on the World War 2 'Dig for Victory' campaign, as I hope to recreate a dig for victory garden.

Name: betty irving nee stansfield
Visited: Sun Apr 28 19:17:02 2002
E-Mail: irving_betty@ hotmail. com
Home Page URL:yes i did. also served in the W"A"A"F"s
ENGLAND
Comments: for the person who wants to know what to do with those photos of germaninfantry and nurses.theres anarticle that has waterin it and a chain to pull.and for the other one john francis richter your still playing the arrogant and kissing you know what of all people the u.s. marines.heaven help us!

Name: GARRIE COLEMAN
Visited: Fri Apr 26 17:35:31 2002
E-Mail: GARRIESUE59@HOTMAIL.COM
Home Page URL:FREESERVE
NO, UK
Comments: This website is excellent for me because my Grandfather was taken POW there after capture on the Anzio beach head in Jan 1944. His name is DENIS COLEMAN. He may well have spent some time in the sick bay or other medical facility because, after capture, he had his left leg amputated through gangrene. I have other details but I am unable to acces them because I am a seving soldier myself in N. Ireland. I came across this site after an adhoc search enquiry. Really great thanks!!

Name: Elena
Visited: Fri Apr 26 03:22:51 2002
No, Scotland
Comments: Great site. This site helped me so much with my history project thanks!

Name: ashleigh
Visited: Fri Apr 26 03:20:49 2002
no, scotland
Comments: very interesting facts i enjoyed very much. it helped my school project.

Name: John Staines
Visited: Thu Apr 25 01:02:41 2002
E-Mail: johnstaines@optushome.com.au
yes, England
Comments: This is one of many of my visits to this site and it will not be the last I am now trying to find any others who served in the Pioneer Corps in North Africa where my late father served as a Sargeant during WW2 where he was wounded .I say again this is a wonderful site well done.

Name: Dave Wilson
Visited: Wed Apr 24 20:48:25 2002
E-Mail: wdavedj@aol.com
no, UK
Comments: Is growing into a really interesting and important archive.Keep up the valuable work. Kind Regards

Name: pofcia@juno.com
Visited: Wed Apr 24 07:20:37 2002
no, United States of America
Comments: This website helped me out with a school project. thank you for the time you must have spent writing this and putting it onto the internet *thankful student

Name: nicholas webley
Visited: Tue Apr 23 13:02:39 2002
E-Mail: nicholaswebley@postmaster.co.uk
united kingdom
Comments: I am researching a book about WW2 in the UK and would like information, stories, pictures and cuttings if possible about the black market, how it operated, who operated and used it. Many many thanks for a most infomative site.

Name: Denis Sharp
Visited: Tue Apr 23 10:29:42 2002
E-Mail: denis.sharp@ntlworld.com
"fraid not", Harlow, Essex, England.
Comments: Brilliant site! many thanks. Looking for wartime photo's of RAF Hunsdon, RAF Sawbridgeworth, and USAAF airfield Matching Green, for inclusion into my website: "Ghostfields"(http://merlinsroared.tripod.com all photo's will be scanned and returned by secure mail, if no photo's, send me your stories or information of these airfields if you or a relative was stationed at any of these former wartime airfields.Would like to hear especially from people of the 391st Bomb group (M)who were at Matching Green and/or, 21,29,85,151,487,464,Squadrons of the RAF who were at RAF Hunsdon

Name: Christine Kaye
Visited: Sun Apr 21 13:39:32 2002
E-Mail: christine.kaye@btopenworld.com
no, England
Comments: I am trying to get together any information about my Grandfather as a surprise for my Mum. He died in Italy in World War II on July 18 1944. I know his regiment and his number but thats about it. I would love to find out where in Italy he was so if anyone can give me any advice i would be most greatful.

Name: Christine Kaye
Visited: Sun Apr 21 13:38:21 2002
E-Mail: christine.kaye@btopenworld.com
no, Comments: I am trying to get together any information about my Grandfather as a surprise for my Mum. He died in Italy in World War II on July 18 1944. I know his regiment and his number but thats about it. I would love to find out where in Italy he was so if anyone can give me any advice i would be most greatful.

Name: Philip,Arnhem Battle Research Group
Visited: Sun Apr 21 13:18:46 2002
Home Page URL:www.arnhembattle.com
Netherlands
Comments: If you have any qquestions relating to the Batlle of Arnhem September 1944, check our site.

Name: Jim Swartz
Visited: Sun Apr 21 08:57:05 2002
E-Mail: warriorsofthenite@hotmail.com
No, Canada
Comments: Thanks for the project, I look forward to reading many stories from those who fought and survived. My late father was a navigator/bomb aimer in 405 Squadron - the Canadian Pathinder Squadron.

Name: rebecca,lizzie,charlotte creed
Visited: Fri Apr 19 12:29:43 2002
E-Mail: quidzin@hotmail.com
no, england
Comments: i found this site extremily helpful..as i am currently doing a project on this subject...thank you!

Name: Grady M Revis III
Visited: Fri Apr 19 09:42:35 2002
E-Mail: gmrevis@immortalportal.com
Home Page URL:immortalportal.com
N/A, N/A
Comments: Thank God we won the war. I long for that beautiful silence that comes just before the shouts of joy in Victory. I honor all those who walked before me that simply did thier duty with a clean heart. I discovered useful information here and for that I thank you. Let's hope it stays that way.

Name: darrell e hansen
Visited: Thu Apr 18 09:17:35 2002
E-Mail: DARRELLEHANSEN@HOTMAIL.COM
no, usa
Comments: I have just found this site. I am looking to learn more about my fathers time in different POW Camps. He was in STALAG 12A, STALAG 2A, STALAG 11A and I am not sure about one near Bitburg Germany. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge on or about 15/16 Dec, near a church in Belgium. He was with CO, I 109th Inf Reg, 28th Inf Div. Looking for help in finding out as much as possible about his time in the camps. He is alive and lving well in Michigan. He name is Ernest V. Hansen.

Name: Danny Bazinet
Visited: Mon Apr 15 10:57:06 2002
E-Mail: dan_baz6@hotmail.com
no i didn`t , Canada
Comments: What an exellent web site u got there, it really touched me, and i was also able to get a lots of information of that page, NICE WORK

Name: Kerry Hutchinson
Visited: Mon Apr 15 05:44:25 2002
E-Mail: families7@btopenworld.com
Home Page URL:www.hutchinson-york.info
No, UK
Comments: Dear Sir, grateful if you could add my history of RAF Burn and 578 Sqn to your list. Still a few teething problems but it should be up and running within the next few days. Thank you.

Name: yvonne bray-bonnage
Visited: Thu Apr 11 12:39:24 2002
E-Mail: bonnageyj@earthlink.net
no, usa
Comments: Wonderful site i hope i get lucky and find some answers about my stepfather. Thank you Yvonne

Name: Tom Barker
Visited: Wed Apr 10 10:18:01 2002
E-Mail: tbarker@bigpond.net.au
Home Page URL:http:// www.Warlinks .com
only just, Brit ish living in Western Australia
Comments: Having read Geharts story above I have no sympathy for his predicament. From my point of view the Gemans started WW1 and lost it and then had to pay the cost of their folly. Once again they decided to hold the world to ransome with WW2 and failed again. The Germans seem to have a fixed idea that they can go where they want and take property belonging to others and change the laws of the countries they steal from. They hang people, gas them, poison them, then when caught they exspect to be treated like they have done no wrong and some are still arrogant enough to try to argue they were in the right. But when the boot is on the other foot they winge that they are not being properly treated. The U.K. was bombed by Germany for four years. Dresden was bombed for a couple of nights and some are even now winjing that the R.A.F. should not have done it. Goebells was screamimg for total war and he got it. Let us have no more stupid remarks that the R.A.F. should not have bombed Germany as they did. I think they deserve every praise and the people who are now deriding them should be made to suffer the same conditions that we had to put up with as POW for 4 years. I tried to escape from Salonica POW camp in Greece. Myself and another chap were beaten by the SS to the point of death when we were caught and ten Greek civilians were put up against the wall and shot. One was an 80 year old woman another was a 12 year old boy. The other man beaten died, I was fortunate in that some lads scrounging for food found me in a disused barrack room covered in bed bugs and they smuggled me onto the train that took us to Germany and a POW camp. I understood that the Americans in charge of rations for the German POW doled out the same meager amount the Germans had been feeding the American POW in German hands. I often read where Germans say " the British could not manage to beat us on their own, I notice the Germans also had assistance from Dutch symathisers, King Boris, the Japanese, the Italians. then they really scraped the bottom of the barrel when they forced old people to bear arms. The Germans have caused so much misery to so many families in the world this last 70 years it is time they took a rest.

Name: Terrie Southgate
Visited: Tue Apr 9 22:50:20 2002
E-Mail: terries@xtra.co.nz
Yes, Canada
Comments: I was in the RCAF (Women's Division) from 1942 to 1945. Was stationed on an Airforce Station at Jarvis Bombing and Gunnery for quite a while. We had the boys from the Commonwealth of Nations training there. Married a New Zealand pilot in 1945 and came to live in New Zealand

Name: K.Renton
Visited: Tue Apr 9 11:43:12 2002
E-Mail: k_renton@hotmail.com
NO, England
Comments: This website is very interesting and can help students really start to understand what it was like in World War II for people to be brought up in those conditions.

Name: Charles Starling
Visited: Sat Apr 6 11:45:07 2002
E-Mail: charlesstarling@onetel.net.uk
Yes, United Kingdom
Comments: Served in RN from 1942

Name: Keith Fraser
Visited: Thu Apr 4 21:49:55 2002
E-Mail: jkcfraser@rogers.com
Yes, Canadian
Comments: RCAF radar, served wth RAF Squadron 269 Coastal Command at Reykjavik, Davidstow Moor, Azores 1943-45

Name: Cliff Billen
Visited: Sun Mar 31 07:14:55 2002
E-Mail: Cliff@cliffbillen.freeserve.co.uk
Yes, United Kingdom
Comments: Served as a Tank Commander with the 79th.Arm.Div.(Hobarts Funnies) Also the 11th. Arm.Div. from Normandy through to Belgium-Holland and Germany. Anyone interested in making contact,please feel free to do so. Brilliant Website !!! Keep up the good work .... Cliff Billen.

Name: Hugh S. Jefferson
Visited: Fri Mar 29 20:10:24 2002
E-Mail: hujeffAmsn.com
Yes, USA
Comments: United States Naval Air Arm, Aviation Pilot WWII I was born in 1923, just the right time to get involved. I enjoyed visiting your site. Best regards, HSJ Texas USA

Name: Lloyd
Visited: Tue Mar 26 18:17:48 2002
E-Mail: Lloyd6932@aol.com
no, England
Comments: A great site for veterans and their offspring to explore,my dad served in Royal Marines aboard the carrier H.M.S Argus and mum was a waaf in 514 sqd Waterbeach,Im very proud of them and all those who fought the agressors.

Name: Lloyd
Visited: Tue Mar 26 18:04:04 2002

Name: david taylor
Visited: Tue Mar 26 12:48:54 2002
E-Mail: david.taylor@sbg.at
yes, england
Comments: I am assisting a colleague in Chicago USA researching about Thurleigh airfield, home of 306th B17 squadron. The name is BELCIK and my colleagues father was a young flier there - my colleague is trying to gather contacts, stories etc to share with his father in these last years of this VETs life. I am English and a businessman living and working in Austria

Name: Stuart Brown
Visited: Tue Mar 26 01:18:20 2002
No, England
Comments: A wonderful site where questions can be asked and memories and photographs recorded for the benefit of others. I have started a web page dedicated to an Army Chaplain - Harry Pointon who served in The Middle East and after the war. It will consist of photographs that he took - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/somme/myweb.tiscali.co.uk/somme/index.html

Name: debbie
Visited: Mon Mar 25 15:57:41 2002
E-Mail: debbiej1@btopenworld.com
staffordshire
Comments: im trying to find anything on pte john emery (jack)who served with the south staffs regiment also any photos of the south staffs would be great with thanks debbie

Name: Tom Barker
Visited: Mon Mar 25 10:21:10 2002
E-Mail: tbarker@bigpond.net.au
Home Page URL:http://www.warlinks.com/
Yes, Western Australia
Comments: I was born in 1921 in Barton-on-Humber Lincolnshire on 23rd May 1921. I joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1938. Was in Palestine in 1939. The Lybian Desert and the battle of Sidi Barrani in 1940. Crete 1941 were I was hit and taken POW by Germans. Spent the next 2 years in forced labour camps then changed identities with an RAF bod Name of Harry Tenny to assist him escape. I spent the next two years in Stalag 4B Muhlberg. Got out of the camp when the guards took off due to Russians advancing and got home on V.E.day.

Name: Terry W. Cashatt
Visited: Sun Mar 24 15:19:46 2002
E-Mail: cashatt@swildcat.com
Home Page URL:http://www.christianveterans.org
no, USA
Comments: This is a great site! I am adding it to my favorites. We can't do enough for our Veterans. If any WWII Veterans are interested, I know a teacher whose class is doing research on the war and wants to talk with WWII Veterans by e-mail.

Name: Mike Gordon
Visited: Sun Mar 24 13:41:24 2002
E-Mail: m.d.d.g@btinternet.com
Yes, UK
Comments: I lived in India with my mother(where my father was posted to just before the outbreak of WW2)and came back to the UK in 1944,after my father was released from POW camp in Germany.This is my first contact with the Wartime Memories Project in an effort to find anyone that was in the same camp as my father.

Name: david kendall
Visited: Sun Mar 24 13:31:20 2002
E-Mail: ken2702@msn.com
no, usa.
Comments: my uncle denzel[jack] kendall landed on omahal beach. if any body knows him let me know. thank you, dave.

Name: Maureen McCarthy
Visited: Sat Mar 23 12:05:25 2002
E-Mail: maureenmccarthy@onetel.net.uk
Home Page URL:None
Yes, UK
Comments: The scale and range of this site, highlights the impact of total war, the pride people feel about their part in it and the succeeding generations respect for those achievements. What struck me was how computer literate are so many survivors - I suppose that having dealt with all sorts of advanced technology in the past, this is just another, smaller, friendlier and easier one.

Name: lesley holt
Visited: Sat Mar 23 08:03:32 2002
E-Mail: holt_lesley@hotmail.com
no, england
Comments: What a wonderful site, I shall be back again and again,

Name: Jim Wilcox
Visited: Fri Mar 22 11:32:02 2002
E-Mail: rafguy@shaw.ca
Home Page URL:http://www.members.shaw.ca/jim.is/rafguy/
Yes, England, now Canada
Comments: Very glad I came across this site, someone has done a lot of work putting it all together. Enjoyed the stories very much, I shall be back often to explore further. Jim Wilcox - ex RAF

Name: Bernard Graham
Visited: Fri Mar 22 09:39:13 2002
E-Mail: bbgpoole@aol.com
Yes, England
Comments: When one sees the manner in which society has deteriorated in recent years, I wonder if the sacrifices made in World War Two are now appreciated by young people.

Name: rooseman p tucker
Visited: Tue Mar 19 14:00:51 2002
E-Mail: roseman @bricknet
yes, usa
Comments: Iserved in the 1056 Port construction and repair group' We helped build the rairoad bridge over the Rhine river in April of 1945.In slightly over 10 days.

Name: alan yeates
Visited: Mon Mar 18 18:28:58 2002
E-Mail: alan@yeatesa.freeserve.co.uk
Home Page URL:http//:www.bathblitz.org
as a child, england
Comments: we are getting a lot of good and bad response to the building of a monument to the 400 civilians who died in Bath through the baedecker raids, April 1942, and I am looking for viewpoints on the subject, trying to understand the responses. see the website www.bathblitz.org - photos of that time very welcome!

Name: alan yeates
Visited: Mon Mar 18 18:28:00 2002
E-Mail: alan@yeatesa.freeserve.co.uk
Home Page URL:http//:www.bathblitz.org
as a child, england
Comments: we are getting a lot of good and bad response to the building of a monument to the 400 civilians who died in Bath through the baedecker raids, April 1942, and I am looking for viewpoints on the subject, trying to understand the responses. see the website www.bathblitz.org

Name: BILL STOREY
Visited: Sun Mar 17 15:51:45 2002
E-Mail: STOREYFORPAWS1@ACTIVEMAIAL.CO.UK
YES, UK
Comments: THANKS FOR YOUR SLOT DAD DIED EARLY 1940 MAM REMARRIED GREAT CHAP 1947 MEMBER OF NEWCASTLE AERO CLUB PAL OF JIM DENIER NEWCASTLE AIRPORT BOSS I WASHED AIRCRAFT ON SAT MORNINGS FOR A FLIP ON A SUNDAY THANX AGAIN BILL STOREY

Name: Claire Bracken.
Visited: Fri Mar 15 09:07:37 2002
E-Mail: lockholt@pgen.net
No., England.
Comments: Great site found by accident really. Have a great grandad who died in Northern France in WW1.Pte. Bert Saunders of The Buffs killed in action on or around 18th March 1916. we go over to the cemetary about once a year to lay a wreath with my two boys 2 & 3.

Name: Ambrose Poss
Visited: Thu Mar 14 11:11:58 2002
E-Mail: awposs@earthlink.net
Yes, U.S.A.
Comments: Drafted in the Dec. 1942. Began with the 102rd Inf. Division and later to 912th HAM Ord. for the duration. Landed in England March, 1993, France March 1994.

Name: Ted Simpkins
Visited: Tue Mar 12 14:06:40 2002
E-Mail: barb.ted@shaw.ca
yes, Canada
Comments: Am wondering how to get a post on the message board?? Have tried twice and it gets rejected.

Name: Rochelle Seal
Visited: Tue Mar 12 10:44:09 2002
E-Mail: rochelle_seal11@hotmail.com
no, United States
Comments: hey i just wanted to say that you need to get more information about army nurses during WW2 and more photographs too. You need photograps of Edith Anderson.

Name: Robert Trewhitt
Visited: Tue Mar 12 05:23:29 2002
E-Mail: rtrewhitt@hartlepoolfe.ac.uk
only the last months, England
Comments: My Uncle who died 7 years ago was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 1 ( West ). His name was John ( Jack ) Cordner and was shot down over Stettin in 1944. He was a F/O Navigator in 12 Squdron RAF.

Name: Michelle Dolman
Visited: Mon Mar 11 08:09:45 2002
E-Mail: rachel.boulton74@moray-edunet.gov.uk
Home Page URL:wartime memories
no i was born after, Scotland
Comments: i was born 1947 and Scotland was really messed up. my mum told me all about how dad fought in the war and died 5 years after from a lung disease.

Name: Bertie
Visited: Sun Mar 10 08:17:13 2002
no, england
Comments: WW2 is very interesting and it is good to know how people felt during it.

Name: Mary Luton
Visited: Sat Mar 9 10:54:01 2002
E-Mail: blmvl.1@btinternet.com
yes, as a child, u.k.
Comments: Great site, great information. I will be back. Just want to say thank you to all those who lost their lives for me, including my father and his brother, who went down on the same vessel, 12-11-41. and other members of the same family, lost in the following january. in fact, there was only one male left out of seven. Thank you all once again, for so much effort put into this site

Name: Margie.
Visited: Wed Mar 6 18:42:27 2002
E-Mail: NanaHarding@webtv.net
Home Page URL:Non
Yes, Great Britain.
Comments: Served in A.T.S. attached REME Donnington.Shropshire. Made many good friends but since being discharged 1945 have never been able to make contact.Now live in the USA.My husband was RAF.died 6 years ago.

Name: Tony SCOTT
Visited: Wed Mar 6 15:09:12 2002
E-Mail: MOONRAKER-NZ@xtra.co,nz
ENGLAND.. Now New Zealand.
Comments: Addendum to earlier message. In my dotage I put England as my Country I now live in New Zealand and is also my Country. Kia Ora,

Name: Anthony(Tony)SCOTT
Visited: Wed Mar 6 15:01:16 2002
E-Mail: MOONRAKER-NZ@xtra.co.nz.
yes, ENGLAND
Comments: Great site. brought back memories , my father was NAFFI store mamager at Netheravon in the 30s till call up on the day war was declares went across with BEF lost his life at Dunkerque. Spent my childhood in Netheravon camp also Upavon, remember Gliders Paratroops etc. Thanks for reviving memories. TS.NZ.

Name: Chris Baskwell
Visited: Mon Mar 4 13:49:54 2002
E-Mail: cml@ntlworld.com
Home Page URL:www.woodleynet.co.uk
Partly, Born 1942, England
Comments: Very Interesting Site, I used to live in Ganger Camp, in Hampshire when the Council used it for temporary housing after the War.

Name: Kerry R. Single
Visited: Fri Mar 1 16:31:14 2002
E-Mail: krsingle@hotmail.com
New Zealand
Comments: I was born after the conflict of WW11 but many of my uncles were involved with one paying the sacrifice, one spending most of the war in POW camp and dad fighting in egypt, italy, and then having to go to Japan with the first of NZ J Force's on the way home. My interest is in research of Stalag 383 and the Rover Scout Crew Richard Coeur-de-Lion.

Name: tom carslaw
Visited: Wed Feb 27 13:15:08 2002
E-Mail: stella.carslaw@talk21.com
I was born in 41, Scotland

Name: Phyl
Visited: Tue Feb 26 04:48:13 2002
E-Mail: attfil@bigpond.com
No, England/Australia
Comments: A great site Well Done

Name: Matt L. Burrows
Visited: Mon Feb 25 22:09:34 2002
E-Mail: ynkecomprswift@yahoo.com
USA
Comments: I am currently building a Comper Swift and was in the entire history of the aircraft including the place where it was built.

Name: Rebecca Huniga Hicks
Visited: Sun Feb 24 19:29:04 2002
E-Mail: becky3@chartertn.net
No, USA
Comments: My father was M/Sgt Ray E Hunigan. He server 32 years in the US Army. He fought in WWII and the Korean War. This is an excelant site and I will return may times. I would like to thank you for perserving memories that would have other wise been forgoten. Good work, see you soon Rebecca Hunigan Hicks

Name: Philip Williams
Visited: Sun Feb 24 09:01:15 2002
E-Mail: Philip.Williams6@ntlworld.com
Home Page URL:N/A
Y & N D.O.B.15/03/45, G.B
Comments: Very interesting reading. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to set this site up. On a scale of 1-10 I give it 10+. Also if anyone is awere of an American equivalent please let me know?

Name: Renita Ekblom
Visited: Fri Feb 22 17:55:16 2002
Home Page URL:BR> No, Baguio and Dubai
Comments:

Name: C. Jeff Dyrek
Visited: Fri Feb 22 17:19:06 2002
E-Mail: jeff@yellowairplane.com
Home Page URL:http://www.yellowairplane.com/yellow_airpl
Viet Nam War, USA
Comments: I was stationed on the USS Kitty Hawk assigned to Attack Squadron VA-192. I didn't know it then, but this was the best time of my life.

Name: bob
Visited: Fri Feb 22 05:12:25 2002
Comments: please add some pictures of Japanese people and planes

Name: liz
Visited: Wed Feb 20 18:39:52 2002
E-Mail: sugarspice1968@hotmail.com
Home Page URL:none
no, united states
Comments: you have a great start on ur site, but i think u could expand it. there's a lot of potential

Name: Ian Tomlinson
Visited: Wed Feb 20 13:40:35 2002
E-Mail: iantomlinson@wressle.fsnet.co.uk
no, UK
Comments: What a superb site. I find WW2 fascinating and this site is one of the best I've seen. Keep up the good work, I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time looking at this site - some of the memories bring a tear to my eye. I would like express my gratitute to, and admiration for everyone who served in WW2

Name: joey cadwell
Visited: Sun Feb 17 17:25:10 2002
E-Mail: azjoey@direcpc.com
yes, england
Comments: great site!!! lived in london during the blitz. carefree,arizona

Name: joey cadwell
Visited: Sun Feb 17 17:20:07 2002
E-Mail: azjoey@direcpc.com
london.,

Name: CINDY GEBHART
Visited: Sat Feb 16 17:12:10 2002
E-Mail: icsheep2@verizon.net
no, USA
Comments: tHIS SITE IS VERY INTERESTING. AND WOULD RECONMEND IT TO OTHERS TO READ.

Name: Dave Goddard
Visited: Sat Feb 16 04:12:06 2002
E-Mail: davegoddard-001@fsmail.net
Born 1947, GB Yorkshire
Comments: Enjoyable read, will be back.

Name: derek woolley
Visited: Sat Feb 16 01:19:09 2002
yes, east dereham norfolk

Name: derek woolley
Visited: Sat Feb 16 01:18:58 2002
yes, east dereham norfolk

Name: derek woolley
Visited: Sat Feb 16 01:18:28 2002
yes,

Name: Peter Jeffries
Visited: Thu Feb 14 15:23:40 2002
E-Mail: peterjeffries@uboot.com
no, England
Comments: thanks this helped with my history project

Name: Chelsea Warren
Visited: Wed Feb 13 08:44:35 2002
no, USA
Comments: i was well pleased with the thoroughness of the site. The photos were exquisite.

Name: Edmond ALOMAINE
Visited: Tue Feb 12 14:35:39 2002
E-Mail: annewillems2@hotmail.com
OUI, BELGIQUE
Comments: Je suis un ancien prisonnier de guerre du STALAG IIB HAMMERSTEIN- Matricule 94200- 20E r?giment d'artillerie des Chasseurs Ardennais - Kommandos- ALT PROCHNOW et NIPNOW Ensuite ordonnace des officiers belges OLYFF et DUCHATEAU de la KRANKENEVIER. Lib?r? comme malade en ao?t 1943. Pouvez prendre contact par cette adresse E-Mail pour partager des souvenirs communs. Amiti?. Edmond Alomaine GEMBLOUX le 17/03/1921

Name: Paul Barson
Visited: Mon Feb 11 10:49:15 2002
E-Mail: tuneboy100@hotmail.com
no, England
Comments: I am trying to find information concerning the POW camp at Brigg, Lincolnshire.

Name: Cliff. Kelly-Walley
Visited: Mon Feb 11 03:03:45 2002
E-Mail: cliff180726@aol.com
Yes, England
Comments: Joined Royal Navy oct 1943,Royal Arther,trained as telegraphist at Kelvin Park(Glasgow)and HMS. Scotia.Drafted to HMS Tyne, served on MANUS ISLAND at the wireless station. CONGRATS ON A GOOD SITE,it will be enjoyed by many people, including myself.

Name: Kim
Visited: Sun Feb 10 22:01:45 2002
E-Mail: blonndeheart@aol.com
No, U.S.A.
Comments: I just wanted to say that I liked your site and what you are trying to do. Thank You.

Name: betty_irving
Visited: Sun Feb 10 19:48:05 2002
E-Mail: @hotmail
served in the w.a.a., england
Comments: Ihope you allfind the information you are looking for.Got my discharge at honeybourne.it,s stillvery much in evidence and oppositeis a nissonhut in which i lived with other w.a.a.f. balloon ops. not that hut but one the same.Are you stillaround eddie edwards from yorkshire.stillthink of you.bettyirving

Name: betty_irving
Visited: Sun Feb 10 19:48:04 2002
E-Mail: @hotmail
served in the w.a.a., england
Comments: Ihope you allfind the information you are looking for.Got my discharge at honeybourne.it,s stillvery much in evidence and oppositeis a nissonhut in which i lived with other w.a.a.f. balloon ops. not that hut but one the same.Are you stillaround eddie edwards from yorkshire.stillthink of you.bettyirving

Name: Elaine Ratcliffe
Visited: Sun Feb 10 00:14:16 2002
E-Mail: grandver@tesco.net
No, Uk
Comments: I am daughter of Vernon Walter Hogg. Flight Seargent (rear gunner) all the knowledge that I have as ny father passed away in 1983, I would love to hear from anyone that knew him. He served in Palestine, Ciaro & all over the Middle East

Name: christopher kenworthy
Visited: Fri Feb 8 14:38:25 2002
E-Mail: chris@chrisken.force9.co.uk
yes, england
Comments: I am trying to find anyone who may have come across Lance Bombadier John Patrick Sullivan, of the Royal Artillery when he was held in Stalag 17b in Austria. He was captured on the Island of Leros and was held in several camps on the way north. I am finding out on behalf of his son and would appreciate any infromation that anyone may have or any possible written source of information. Many thanks in anticipation.

Name: Joffre Barlow
Visited: Thu Feb 7 18:40:30 2002
E-Mail: margjoff@telusplanet.net
yes, Canada
Comments: note new e-mail address

Name: Ann Hayes
Visited: Thu Feb 7 16:21:02 2002
E-Mail: ben@studio2.freeserve.co.uk
No, Wales
Comments: Trying to contact anyone who knew my late father Gunner Les Hayes Royal Artillery, POW in Stalag XXA and XXB 1940-45 - also info or pictures of the camps would be appreciated. Great site - will visit again

Name: Simon H
Visited: Wed Feb 6 04:22:58 2002
E-Mail: simon@lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk
Home Page URL:http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk
Thankfully No, UK
Comments: Just found your site by chance. What a great idea. Best of luck with your project.

Name: ann gibb nee duncan
Visited: Mon Feb 4 13:58:54 2002
E-Mail: mouse@dccnet.com
no, canada[ex-pat from scotland]
Comments: Great site Would love to hear from anyone who may still be around that served on the HMS Penelope Any pictures would be most appreciated

Name: Ernest George Ford
Visited: Mon Feb 4 07:23:10 2002
E-Mail: tennegf@aol.com
yes, Canada
Comments: I am searching for any information concerning Sgt.Charles William Ford Regt. Number 970677 British Expeditionary Forces WW 1. He was a Sgt. in the Royal Field Artillery 60th Divisional Ammunition Column 12th Corps and served in France, Salonika and Alexandria. He enlisted in the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) Embodied Territorial Force 18. 11. 15. and transferred to the Royal Field Artillery on 11. 3. 16. He served overseas in France from 25.6.16 to 2.12.16, Salonika from 3.12.16 to 13.6.17, Alexandria from 14.6.17 to 14.7.19. He was Disembodied on Demobilization 30.8.19. Discharged on Demobilization on 31.3.20. Service with the Colours 18.11.15. to 30.8.19. He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. Last known address in 1947, 105 Lilloet St. West Apt. 16 Moosejaw Saskatchewan Canada. Ernest G. Ford E - mail address - tennegf@aol.com

Name: John L McGuire
Visited: Sun Feb 3 09:57:18 2002
E-Mail: john9304@chartermi.net
yes, USA
Comments: Served with ECo-310Inf and was captured 14 DEC 44.Spent time in POW camps at Bohn,Limburg,Hammelburg,Nurnburg and Moosburg where I was liberated on 29 April 45. I woould like to hear from anyone who spent time in these camps and may recall having had contact with me. I found your web site in the AXPOW bulletin. Best Regards, John L McGuire

Name: Jack Nigel Marsh
Visited: Sat Feb 2 06:20:18 2002
E-Mail: gornal@btinternet.com
yes, England
Comments: Iwas with the Royal Engineers from 1941 to 1946. Was in the middle East for 4 years including Palestine for the whole of 1945. Played alot of football and cricket in Tripoli in 1943 incuding playing for thae Army and England. Does anyone remember the Football Stadium in Tripoli. A very good site and I hope that someone remembers me.

Name: Ella Gibson
Visited: Mon Jan 28 06:29:13 2002
E-Mail: IsabellaGib@aol.com
Home Page URL:none
No, Scotland
Comments: Really enjoy reading all the stories about the war and I really take my hat off to all the men and women who all done their bit for the country. I wondered also if I could ask a favour, my mum also enjoyed the site as it brings back memories to her. She was in the ATS and had a good pal called THELMA BRABON.She also knew two men called JOHNNY ROVIRA and JOHNNY DAY. If anybody could help me find if these people are still alive today I would love to hear from them. It would make my mum`s day. Thankyou.

Name: Mark Goodchild
Visited: Sun Jan 27 13:42:07 2002
E-Mail: mark@goods12.freeserve.co.uk
no, uk
Comments: Very good site, I enjoyed browsing through it. Thank you

Name: Jill Gooding
Visited: Sat Jan 26 16:35:46 2002
E-Mail: jillikins@nc.rr.com
NO, USA
Comments: My father flew out of Framlingham on B-17s. He spent several weekends in London. On July 7,1944 he crashed over Holland and was in Stalag Luft I for the remainder of the war. Enjoyed your site. Hope to visit England again soon.

Name: Ruth Deans
Visited: Sat Jan 26 08:34:57 2002
E-Mail: rudeans@yahoo.co.uk/cool
Home Page URL:Don't have one
No, Scotland
Comments: This sit ehas been very useful for my History report I am doing on Evacuation I would like to ask who made this site because they have done a very good job of it if you are the maker then Well Done!

Name: Sophie
Visited: Thu Jan 24 11:42:04 2002
i wasn't alive in ww, England
Comments:

Name: Hi i'm A.J {Annie}
Visited: Thu Jan 24 11:37:42 2002
no way i'm only 10!, England
Comments: This site is way cool! I'm learning about the holocaust ,Anne Frank and mostly ww2. This site has helped, i looked at it in school too. THAX.......ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN ABOUT WW2 THIS IS THE BEST PLACE TO EXPLORE. AGAIN THANX....BYE...SEE YA!!!! (YOU KNOW THE BIT WHERE IT SAYS NO WAY I'M ONLY 10?WELL IT MEANS I WASN'T ALIVE IN THE WAR!!

Name: Hi i'm A.J {Annie}
Visited: Thu Jan 24 11:33:45 2002
No way i'm only 10!, England
Comments: This site is way cool! I'm learning about the holocaust ,Anne Frank and mostly ww2. This site has helped, i looked at it in school too. THAX.......ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN ABOUT WW2 THIS IS THE BEST PLACE TO EXPLORE. AGAIN THANX....BYE...SEE YA!!!!

Name: John Cooper
Visited: Thu Jan 24 08:26:09 2002
E-Mail: john@cooper286.fsnet.co.uk
Home Page URL:http://splashdown2.tripod.com/HandleyPageH
Yep, England
Comments: Hi. Served at RAF Martlesham Heath in 1960 for a short while, liked the place so much I now only live two fields away from the Control Tower Museum. Things have changed a lot over the years, a new housing development and business park takes up much of the old airfield. Some of the hangars and buildings are still in situ and there is a pub right on the runway at the centre of the new village. The Black Tiles pub is still in existence as too is the Red Lion as popular now as they were ever in the past.

Name: Nicholas Webley
Visited: Thu Jan 24 05:02:12 2002
E-Mail: nicholaswebley@postmaster.co.uk
no, UK
Comments: It is important that WW2 is not forgotten. This site is doing a good job to say the least. If anyone has any memories they would like me to include in my next book about life on the home front, please mail me.

Name: Dolores Edwards (nee Hewitt)
Visited: Tue Jan 22 16:18:19 2002
E-Mail: dollyedwards@blueyonder.co.uk
Born 1941, England
Comments: My father, George Hewitt 833089, 1 Field Regt, Royal Artllery died 1942,

Name: Peter Wilkinson
Visited: Sun Jan 20 12:50:07 2002
E-Mail: pwilkins@telusplanet.net
Yes, England
Comments: Hartburn - close to Stockton-on -Tees Born in 1932 I saw the raids on Tees-side. One bomb fell in our school playing field (Hartburn School) First few weeks of the war we spent a lot of time in mud trenches with corrugated steel sheet as roofs in that playing field Peter

Name: Vincent D. Neil
Visited: Sun Jan 20 11:47:44 2002
E-Mail: vneil@bellsouth.net
yes, Canada
Comments: I lived in St. Thomas, Ontario and I spent most of my days looking up to identify the RCAF aircraft flying overhead from a nearby training base.(Aylmer?)

Name: MARY WILSON
Visited: Thu Jan 17 06:08:29 2002
E-Mail: MARYVILLE1@KITV.CO.UK
Home Page URL: ????????
BORN 1950, ENGLAND
Comments: JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKYOU TO THE EVACUEES WHOS MEMORIES I HAVE JUST BEEN READING.MOTHER USED TO TELL ME HOW IT WAS WE ARE TELL ME HOW IT WAS WE LIVE IN HULL WHICH WAS BADLY BOMBED. SHE HAD BEEN SENT TO MALTON TO HAVE HER BABY.AFTER SHE WAS BORN AND MOTHER HAD RECOVERED SHE WAS EAGER TO GET HOME AGAIN THANKYOU TO THOSE PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR MEMORIES AND YOUR BRAVERY.

Name: Pat LaRocca
Visited: Wed Jan 16 19:22:20 2002
No, United States
Comments: My dad (Robert Davis) served in WWII, and was a prisoner of war at both Stalag VIIA and Stalag VIIB. Only 18 years of age when captured, upon his release and return home to the U.S. he wrote a short essay on his memories as a POW. I recently found the essay among the personal effects of my mother after her passing. Thankyou for posting to your website.

Name: Jim Casey
Visited: Mon Jan 14 22:56:51 2002
E-Mail: murjim1@ozemail.com.au
Yes, UK- Now living in Australia
Comments: I was born in Sydney Street, Bradford, Manchester on the 10th June 1928.In 1939 I was living in Ivy Street, Gorton, and I attended St. Francis Catholic School on Gorton Lane. My Father had passed away in April of that year, before the outbreak of War.The local council built brick air raid shelters in the back yards of our houses, and long brick community air raid shelters in the streets.Our back yard air raid shelter was only just big enough to take a double bed, and my Mother, my two younger sisters and myself slept ther every night for two years. We had air raids every night without fail, when our area was hit many times with high explosive bombs,incendiary bombs and land mines that were dropped by parachute on selected targets.Near to our home was Mellands Playing Fields where a Military Camp had been built and was occupied by an ante aircraft unit of the Royal Artillery, they would blast away at the German planes caught in there searchlights every night, in addition we had mobile ante aircraft guns mounted on Army vehicles driving around the streets als blasting away at the planes. Our air raid shelters had no doors so to blot out the light from the searchlights and the flashes from the guns and bombs, I hammered two six inch nails into the morter between the bricks on the inside of the door way, and hung a blanket over the doorway. People of my age group would remember Lord Haw Haw, that was the nick name of an Englishman who had defected to the Germans, and he would broadcast every day from Germany, telling us where the Germans were going to concentrate their bombing raids that night, and he was right every time, my school was right next door to Crossley Motors, a very large factory engaged, as all other factories at that time in what was called "War Work", but covered everything required for the War Effort, be it planes, tanks, bombs, ammunition etc;a large percentage of the workers employed by them were women. One morning when I went to school after a heavy night of bombing which included Crossley Motors as one of the targets,I found that an incendiary bomb had come through the roof of my class room (standard seven)through my desk and into the wooden floor boards, my desk had been turned into a large piece of charred wood, the class room was a virtual write off, but the rest of the school was saved by the fire brigade, but we could smell the smoke for day's after. I will close here to attend to some personal matters but will make an effort to continue my memories of the end of the War and the early years following. Fond Regards to all back in the Old Dart.

Name: Steinar Andersen
Visited: Mon Jan 14 21:48:29 2002
E-Mail: steinarandersen@yahoo.com
no, Poland
Comments: Steinar Olav Fletre Andersen, Corporal / USMC 9th MTBN, 3rd FSSG - Camp Foster steinarandersen@yahoo.com I am a Norwegian who served in the United States Marine Corps for 7 years. I was stationed in Okinawa on the main USMC base (Camp Foster) from 9/1984 to 9/1985.

Name: jack jago
Visited: Mon Jan 14 12:45:27 2002
E-Mail: jackjago@btopenworld.com
no(im only 13 years), england
Comments: I would just like to find out more about the war escpecially for children.It seems really interesting.

Name: R SMITH
Visited: Sat Jan 12 09:06:33 2002
E-Mail: SNOTFART
NO, Comments: THANKS TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN HOW DIED FOR US. WONDERFUL SITE.

Name: Wally Reeve
Visited: Fri Jan 11 20:44:25 2002
E-Mail: reeve@inet.net.nz
Yes, England now New Zealand
Comments: Born in 1927 Joined up in 1942 by putting my age up. Served in Royal Navy and finished the war on LCI(L) in the Far East. Then did my 22 in the Army. A very good and interesting site to which I will return .

Name: Tom Palmer
Visited: Thu Jan 10 04:45:41 2002
E-Mail: tom@strongnet.co.nz
Yes, England
Comments: Fascinated. Brings back many memories reading through. A really superb site - I didn't think people would be interested anymore, delighted that they are - We Will Remember Them.

Name: anita atkinson
Visited: Tue Jan 8 14:27:02 2002
E-Mail: anita@acky.fsbusiness.co.uk
no, england
Comments: I'm looking for info about Harperley Prisoner of War Camp in Co. Durham. Anything at all. By the way I think this site is smashing - great for the kids studying WWII at school.

Name: Maurice Bassett
Visited: Sun Jan 6 23:07:59 2002
E-Mail: mabassett@dingoblue.net.au
yes I did , England
Comments: served in Africa cicily Italy Europe and occupational forces im Germany

Name: serenemoreton
Visited: Sat Jan 5 10:51:15 2002
E-Mail: serenemoreton@x-stream.co.uk
no, uk
Comments: Great site. I thought the Hooton Park page was the best and I will visit it myself very soon. Did you know that Hooton Park was the first airfield to have ILS in the UK?

Name: marie-louise claxton
Visited: Thu Jan 3 18:39:19 2002
E-Mail: mouse@dccnet.com
no, canada
Comments: I am again enthralled with these pages. It is like listening to my mom and my aunts talking. Iwas born in Manchester in 1949. My mom was a single girl during the war and often talked of her friends and the palaces she worked. She did fire-watch at Metro-vics and was only scared once, she saw a rat. She did war work. Her name was Mabel Porter[Blackwell] I know she had some wonderful memories of the war years, she once said that she didn't want me to go through a war. She had some very sad memories too. My dad came from Rusholme. He joined the RAF in 1937 and remained until 1945. He was a staff sergent and often spoke fondly of the people he met. He spent some time in Clinton, Ontario and said how kind everyone was to the RAF boys. My dad passed away at the age of 66 in 1978, too young as far as I was concerned. I still miss him and make sure I attend the services on Rememberance day in honor of he and my mom. He loved Vera Lynn, any song by her was ok by him. I hope to keep the memeories of all veterans alive, we have so much to thank them for. God bless you all.

Name: marie-louise claxton
Visited: Thu Jan 3 13:10:28 2002
E-Mail: mouse@dccnet.com
no, Comments: what a wonderful page my dad was staff sgt bill henry, served in the raf 1937-1945 he was posted to clinton ont as part of the commonwealth training programme i would also like to know if anyone knows anything about amercian soldieres based at victoria park manchester during worl war 2pl

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