Videos tagged with bombing

Narrow escapes for a WW2 evacuee and his parents

While John was having a traffic accident involving the only car for miles around, his father narrowly escaped death on a trolleybus and his parents were bombed out of their houses half a dozen times.

• Stuart Prebble
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London being bombed during WW2

Bill Avis talks about bombs falling on London during the Second World War, collecting shrapnel, and picking up something and taking it home that was more dangerous than he thought!

• Zoe Timmers
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growing up in WWII- part 1

• Katherine Waddell
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AVOIDING EVACUATION DURING WORLD WAR TWO

Bill Avis was four when war broke out in 1939. Here he talks about how he avoided evacuation (and getting punished for it!) and bombs falling alongside him in the street.

• Zoe Timmers
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BOMBS FALLING ON LONDON

Terence Nunn was only 7 when war broke out in 1939. He was evacuated twice during the War but on one occasion when he was home he remembers an air raid and what it was like hearing the bombs fall on London.

• Zoe Timmers
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