How I met Rommel

Here's a great little anecdote of how a Tommy got to meet Rommel

D-Day Memoir and podcast

This article relates the tale of a D-Day veteran and includes a podcast interview.  This vet landed on Omaha to carry out demolition work.

On French soil

Here's a short little memoir from d-day and the fields beyond the beach head.

5 Horrid days

In this memoir of five days at Dunkirk waiting for rescue , by a military engineer, you'll be able to his tale of despair, hope despair and hope!

War comes a visiting

Here's a really nice article about how one family had a couple Tommies billeted on them, and the other effects the war had.

Five Stripe Marine

This is an interesting memoir.  A young lad trys to join up right after Pearl Harbour but his dad says "No", a dad by the way that joined up for WWI aged 16!

Life in a Tank

Fancy reading about what life in a WWI tank was like?  Well now is your chance with this narrative of experiences by Richard Haigh.

Prisoners of War

Over on the WWII experience web site thay have a collection of short memoirs from POW interned in the Pacific campaigns.

Tanker memoir

The Bradenton has a short memoir article from a d-day tanker with a loathing of hedgerows!

Journalists memoir

Here's a srort article written by a WWII era journalist, remembering his meeting s and interviews with some of the "stars" of the war.