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Never to be Forgotten Do you have a tape recorder, digital voice recorder or camcorder? Do you know someone who lived through the Second World War? Please help The Wartime Memories Project to ensure that the many and varied contributions are never forgotten. If you could spend some time talking to your friend or relative about the war, record the conversation and send a copy to be preserved in our archive, you will be helping to make sure that future generations have the opportunity to hear the experiences first hand. If you know anyone old enough to remember the Great War we would love to hear their recollections. Please Click here and print the form to send with your recording Click here for some sample questions you may find useful. Please select and area from the list below. Allied Forces Prisoners of War The War at Sea D Day Memories V.E. Day Memories North East England Moving to Newcastle Wartime in Durham City Something fell out of the plane. Staying in Sheffield. Sunlight Soap and Polish Lemonade A chance to have a sister Wilkinsons Shelter Disaster Bombs on the Headland Preparations for the Invasion School days and Market Days Air Raid Shelters and New Friends Memories of a Yorkshire Lad Bombs fall on South Bank Memories of Hartlepool A fair share of rations Evacuated to Yorkshire Boy Scout lends a hand Recollections from Stockton on Tees Don`t show a light! North West England Manchester School Days The End of our Holiday A rare treat A bomb in our street. Square Bashing A Soldiers War Years War Years in Walton Village. An evacuee. Determined to do My Bit. Recognition of his Bravery Childhood memories of Salford Avoiding the bombs. A child`s eye view. Air raid in Manchester Wartime Liverpool A Flight Engineer`s duty Scotland Disaster on the Clyde Americans in Oban The Invasion of Tobermory Evacuated to Troon Friends for life A journey from New York Enemy planes over Lerwick Wales A Shire Horse called Prince Northern Ireland An Irish childhood during World War Two Midlands I was a War Bride Evacuation to Kenilworth One man's Radar War-time Austerity Sunshine to sadness Hospital Beds are for the troops Flight to Berlin with 106 Squadron East Anglia Keeping the fortresses flying A Farming Community at War. Evacuated from Great Yarmouth Waiting for D-Day Halifax HR777 Flying Fortress Station, Somewhere in England South East England A South London Child. The Battle of Britain. Born on the day Hitler invaded Poland To Daddy with Love. Wartime experiences in Croydon Evacuated Three Times Flying Bombs Trained as a runner A Phase in my Life Dulwich during the blitz London at War The Story of a Boy The Battle of Brighton. British and proud of it. Dad was an Air Raid Warden. The Hun. Our shelters. Hitler isn`t going to stop me. Apples for the Airmen. Life on the Coast The struggling Lancaster Life near the Aerodrome Fragments Unfolded An Adult world at 13 A near miss in London In the RAF at 16 Fighters over Hastings Operation Pied Paper A Mother`s Story Shelter in the caves Southern England Enough Chocolate to last for Months Early Memories. Sam's War. Wartime in Charcott D-Day South West England Dunkirk - The Aftermath No Shelter for Us. Recognition for a Brave Man. The Bath Blitz Evacuees in the South West Transformation from Boy to Airman Happy Birthday Jean. The Home Front Evacuees The Women's Land Army Rowney Priory Life in Devon Bagwash Farm Duties Bevin Boys No Smart Uniform for Me! The Coal Frog. The Home Guard Training with the Home Guard Air Raid Wardens Aunty Eadie and the Biltz Messengers A Tin Hat and your own Bike. The Auxiliary Fire Service Fire over Southampton The Factories ROF Aycliffe The Police Force Hospitals The Women's Voluntary Service The Railways The Auxiliary Territorial Service Life as a Dispatch Rider Women of World War Two The River Emergency Service and Postal Censorship A V1 in London Secret Work Nurses in the Middle East Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Adelaide Hall A mother`s story D-Day An Exciting Frustration The D-Day Dance Watching those white striped planes and gliders Something big was happening. Something Special Omaha Beach Memories of D-Day The Channel Islands Growing up during The Occupation France The Long Winter. Life in a Tank Holland An Escape from occupied Holland Brigadier Gerald Lathbury. A Tank Crew came to stay. A tribute to Ernest Hamlett. 12 Platoon go to War The murder of Michael Cambier Sharing the farm with the Allies Belgium Looking for two airmen helped by the Belgian Marquis. A Great Cook Despatch Rider in the Royal Signals Germany Hellfire in the Forest One Christmas always remembered. High School to War Zone I promise Dad The Push towards the Rhine A Glider ride to Germany An SS Officer`s Fate Poland Resistance Exile Italy A Day never to be forgotten It`s dicey flying Wimpys Partisan soldiers Malta Can you help complete the Roll of Honour? Africa JUST A SO-SO DAYDay by Day diary of life in the Desert. 'Sprogs' in the Middle East The 21st Birthday Party Marble Arch The Beauty Contest Wounded at El-Alemein Egypt Petrol for the 8th Army Burma A Ferry to Calcutta Seeking any family members of 38 POW's USA Memories of Olive's in Belmont Wartime Shortages Memories of Boot Camp The secret of the plane My Brothers A Proud Nephew Remembers A Crossing on the Queen Elizabeth "The Safe" United States Australia Life in the Australian Womens Land Army The Merchant Navy Sailing with the Merchant Navy New Zealand Evacuated to New Zealand Russia Kidnapped by the Nazis Malaya True Grit My part in Tojo's Downfall Japan After the Bomb Korea Advance Occupation Party Indonesia North Sea Atlantic A short, but happy career at sea A Peggy`s Life A Boyhood Friend Remembers A U-boat Captured Radio operator in a Convoy Pacific Clark Field Kamikaze hit on the US Navy On board ship at Pearl Harbour Medic at Guadalcanal Indian Ocean The Cocos Islands Airfields of World War Two - Index The Resistance The Resistance Auxiliary Units - The British Resistance Life in the Forces during World War Two Allied Forces British Army Married for one Week. Royal Air Force A Barber's service. Edna's Secret War Canadian Army A Canadian in England The Women's Auxilliary Air Force Four Years In Lifetime, A Lifetime In Four Years Operation Big Ben Cadets Air Cadets Our First Flight Prisoners of War - Index Ships of World War Two Secret places of World War Two The Railways Technological Advances Recording D-Day and after. Sport The Second World War Day-by-Day Our new diaries and letters feature. Poems Photographs Study Centre A new section to assist students with general questions. General Questions and Answers Question of the Day: Submitted by one of our younger visitors: If you lived through the second world war: Click here to submit an answer or to view other questions. Rationing during World War Two Recommended Children's Books A collection of childhood wartime experiences. Our Childhood 1939 - 1945 A boy in occupied Holland Far side of the World and Back Again. Wartime experiences in Croydon A Long Journey An Air Raid A Fireman saved my Life. Adrach, Shadrach, and Abednigo. Water for the tea. Evacuation The Doodlebug. Sunlight Soap and Polish Lemonade Evacuated to NewZealand Things I remember about the War Making some pocket money War-time Austerity Searchlights and Anti-aircraft Guns The School Bell Trick A bike ride with a Friend Home from Hospital Evacuated to Yorkshire Who is that? Bombs on our school A Wartime Childhood Memories of a Yorkshire Lad The night the bombs fell Rations A Boy Scouts job. German planes and rations. A four year old remembers Shelters and Gasmasks School Days. An enemy plane School days and days in Hospital A Banardos Boy A Mother`s Story Home Tracing your Wartime Family History. 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