Dorothea Barron, 100, said she swapped her school uniform for a naval uniform in 1943, despite being below the 5ft 3in minimum height.

However, one had a very different ending, being moved brick by charred brick more than 4,000 miles away and rebuilt at a ...

They experienced everything from being buried alive to losing friends and family. Today they proudly proclaim, ‘We survived ...

While the so-called ‘Blitz Spirit' has latterly been painted as a myth, aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe on the UK's towns and ...

John Goldsmith was too young to fight in World War II, but he remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that ...

SONIA Wade feels she has got lucky in the lottery of life, even though as a tiny baby she lost her parents in the Blitz in London. She was found amid the rubble and the smoke of bombardment ...

George and his family are facing their biggest air raid yet. The air raid sirens blare, and they rush to their Anderson Shelter – a cold, damp and cramped and half buried iron shelter that, like many ...