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formed with HQ at RAF Stanmore
on 1st April 1939
by Leo Niehorster
by David Ryan
The government also set up a
Children's Overseas Reception Board
(CORB) which arranged for children
to be sent to Canada Australia and
the USA. In the first few months over
210,000 were registered with the
scheme. However, after the
City of Bernares,
on it's way to
Canada, was sunk by a German
torpedo on 17th September, 1940,
killing 73 children, the overseas
evacuation programme was
brought to a halt.
1939-1945
Memories
of the Fleet Air Arm 1939-1945
by Richard Griffin
Keep Smiling Through
The Home Front. 1939 - 1945
author; Susan Briggs
1939-1945
a very good overview of many of the
aspects of living in wartime London
the underground shelters
In the long hot summer of 1939
Plymouthians witnessed the
impending and eventual outbreak
of World War II. The extended
school summer holiday saw
furious activity in the deserted
school playgrounds and verdant
public parklands. Mechanical
excavators were busy digging
trenches in these playgrounds,
in almost every City park, and
in many sports grounds. Not
even little green shrub borders
were spared.
a remarkable website
and the interesting dilemma
Woolworths found itself in
the BBC's very
extensive website
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