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Stories - World War Two

World War Two, Second World War, W.W.II

 

 

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Lieutenant Bock was manning a Hamburg flak battery ....

Burmeister was a greengrocer in Hamburg...

Hans Brunswig was the Hamburg fire chief....

Flight Lieutenant S.B. Brackenbury plane crashed and he spent 3 years as a POW....

Ken Brown's mission was to bomb the Sopre dam....

Inge Einspenner was 16 years old when she survived the firebombing of Hamburg....

Traute Koch was 15 years old when her mother wrapped her in sheets to survive the firebombing....

Hermann Kroger was the leader of a fire fighting team....

Favreau was French Canadian in the RCAF...

John Fauquier almost didn't make it back after bombing Berlin....

Kate Hoffmeister was burnt in the firebombing....

Hamburg Fireman

Moffat - his plane caught fire and some of the crew died but he lived...

Jerrold Morris describes a typical bombing run...

Mary Moore joined Bomber Command and fell in love with a French Canadian tail gunner....

Canadians survive a German night fighter attack.

Elli Nawroski was 16 years old and working in a paint factory during the bombing...

Erika Wilken survived the firebombing of Hamburg...

Ralph Wood - each bomber was really a flying 25&endash;ton bomb just looking for an excuse to blow up...