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MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR TWO - PART 11 (2)

Posted by Mervyn Mitton , 05 December 2011 · 177 views

The Royal Family and Mr. Churchill at Buckingham Palace on VE Day




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MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR TWO - PART 11

Posted by Mervyn Mitton , 05 December 2011 · 61 views

There have been some delays in finishing this Blog. The extension to our Photographic Competition took longer then we had expected. However - here are the final two parts to this section of my life - the younger part !

THE END BEGINS...............

I covered in earlier chapters the damage to life and property created by the German V1 and V2...


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MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2 - 10 - PART 2

Posted by Mervyn Mitton , 25 October 2011 · 46 views

There has been some problems with the software - I have deleted photos that wouldn't show and will post them all in this section.

Re-reading the last section I may have given the impression that we all walked around like shaking jellyfish - this would not be correct. The whole business of the War - from my point of view as a small boy growing-up,...


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MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2 - PART 10

Posted by Mervyn Mitton , 23 October 2011 · 38 views

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How the World has changed from these early days of WW2. Blitzkreig in 1940 - V1 Rockets in 1944 and V2 Rockets in late 1944 . Today we are so used to modern remote controlled weaponry - Tomahawk Cruise Missiles can fly hundreds of miles and land within a few metres of their targets

The point I am making is that we had suffered 4 1/2 years...


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MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2 - PART 9

Posted by Mervyn Mitton , 12 October 2011 · 69 views

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I haven't really thought what I'm going to write about today. I think we have started to get towards the last two years of the War - and that was not the quiet time that we might have expected. I will probably cover it in two parts.

I have enjoyed writing this - even if it is a little time consuming. I intend continuing until I was 12...






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