I was born in 1938, nonetheless there are some memories of WW2 that may be of some use. The air raid shelter we had I have not heard of elsewhere but this may just be because no one knows of the ...

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I was almost 5 years old in 1940/41, and I remember sleeping, but in being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the Anderson Shelter in the garden. The problem was that it was filled ...

Opened in 1972, the RAF Museum fills five hangars with warplanes from the past 100 years: restored WWI fighters, seaplanes, WWII fighters and bombers, and jet aircraft from the Cold War's earliest ...

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