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Glasgow suffered serious damage and many casualties from air raids during the Second World War. Do you have any memories of the raids? Perhaps you were evacuated to the coast or the countryside? You can tell your story here.
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There are currently 20 stories in this category. To read a story click on its title.
| Uploaded | Title | Author |
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| 26/10/2005 | Another Wartime Holiday. In 1943 I set off again on another wartime holiday. Once again the destination was Campbeltown, but this time ... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 27/09/2005 | H.M.S. Sussex, September 1940 The early morning of 18 September 1940 is a time I shall always remember. I was a 19 year old R.N. Able Seaman... | peterjpetts@aol.com (peter petts) |
| 18/09/2005 | Her Wee Son Came Back From the Dead The letter Maw Evers received was one that every Mother dreaded. "Your son John has gone missing in action and... | weeanne66 (Catherine Shields) |
| 25/08/2005 | Tale of the Bank It was a hot summer's Sunday and we decided to go away for the day. Six of us in all; my two brothers and thre... | Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli) |
| 24/08/2005 | Unwanted Souvenirs From a German POW Camp in Govan During the war when I was a young schoolboy, I was crazy about war souvenirs and would have walked the proverb... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 15/08/2005 | The Evacuation - Not Dunkirk, the Big One! When war seemed imminent, on the Friday of the fateful weekend as I recall, we were simply told to report to t... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 08/08/2005 | The Sinking of HMS Sussex at Yorkhill Quay. It was I think in the early fall of 1940 and I had recently returned to Glasgow after having been evacuated to... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 04/08/2005 | A Wartime Quallie In order to get into high school back in the early 'forties, and to determine which type of courses were open ... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 03/08/2005 | Anti-Italian Vandalism in Govan Among the many memorable days in Glasgow during the war, the day of Italy's infamous entry into the war, the "... | Dugald (John Milloy) |
| 15/07/2005 | Baffling Walls At the mouth of every close, they built what were known as "baffle walls". They could not have named them bett... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 05/07/2005 | A Little War Irony I suppose in wartime there are a great many ironies, such as us re-arming the Japanese Army whom we had been f... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 03/07/2005 | Belsen On the Newsreels In 1945 the newsreels began to show signs of Germany's Regime beginning crumbling. We realised the War might ... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 29/06/2005 | Clydebank Blitz One night in 1941 we were warned by the siren that there was an air raid going on. It sounded so near, we knew... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 24/05/2005 | Two Pashas in Every Packet In my teens it was very unfashionable to be a non-smoker. As soon as we got the chance we would try to learn ... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 10/04/2005 | Meeting Joe Louis, The Brown Bomber At the age of 13 I was working as a delivery boy for a baker's company called Scott's Bakery in High Craighall... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 09/04/2005 | An Undesirable Alien? I sat bolt upright, dragged from my slumber by the rapping on the door. It was pitch black in the confines of ... | Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli) |
| 08/04/2005 | My VE Day 1945 Like every other city in Britain, Glasgow was bursting with excitement. We knew the war was over and were just... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 08/04/2005 | A "'Silver"' Collection At the top of St George's Road there was a picture house or movie theatre, whatever you want to call it. It wa... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 12/01/2005 | Air Raid Shelters Born two weeks before the Second World War, I was certainly too young for the front lines but in a few short y... | gorbalsjim1 (jimmy boyle) |
| 08/01/2005 | Memories of World War II The Second World War and living in Shettleston, in Glasgow's East End, were synonymous to me. I was six years ... | Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli) |
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