Videos tagged with second world war
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!
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.
FLYING HURRICANES AND SPITFIRES
Wing Commander Bob Foster was born in 1920. He decided to join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve in January 1939. He flew a Hurricane fighter in the Battle of Britain. Here he talks about the differences between flying a Hurricane and a Spitfire.
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BOMB EXPLODES ON HMS ANTELOPE Part 2 Falklands War
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded.... In his e
An eye witness of a communist execution
With Germany out of their way, Tito's communist party came back to power. Rrahim Rexhepi, a World War Two survivor, explains how the Yugoslavian communists executed people that simply refused to obey
CRASH LANDING AT GATWICK AIRPORT during World War Two
Wing Commander Bob Foster was born in 1920. He decided to join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve in January 1939. He flew a Hurricane fighter in the Battle of Britain but had an unlikely landi
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORY Seeing a Zeppelin
William Walker was born in 1913 and later went on to serve in the RAF during World War Two. Here he recalls his earliest memory of seeing a German Zeppelin during the First World War.
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Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
Wartime spirit and children's games and activities
Alex was born and raised in Hackney, East London. He was about seven years old when the second world war broke out. In the first part of his interview he recalls the games he and his friends from the
Experience in Cold War Germany
Peter discusses military service and being posted to Germany.
Everyday life in the fifties
John grew up in the fifties and tells Alison Nash what life was like when you had to find a shilling for the gas meter, there was no TV, not much radio and you had to make your own entertainment. He r
AFTERMATH OF BRIXTON RIOTS 1981
Alex Wheatle took part in the Brixton Riots of April 1981. He is also an award-winning novelist who wrote East of Acre Lane, published in 2001, which was inspired by the Brixton riots. Here he descr
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