“The authorities in Belfast were disgracefully complacent about the possibility of air raids in Belfast… they argued that Belfast was the furthest place from Germany.. the bombers will not get here… well they were so wrong.”
Major Potter gives a history of Northern Ireland during the war, from the newly housed Northern Ireland War Memorial in Talbot Street.
“It was quite a relief! War was over and I survived it!” John Robson John Robson sat down with Pete Bleakly and generously shared his story about his dynamic and extensive life, which was spent living across the Ea...
A man fighting the Japanese in World War Two loses contact with home. “I slowly lost touch with all my family, I was away for six and a half years”
A dangerous job as an armourer in World War Two living on an airbase with constant air raids and the sound of bombs raining down. “We put guns and rockets into the aircraft and sent them on their way”
A boy on the Shankill Road experiences the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, a night that would live in his memories forever. “As I grew up and grew older I thought it would eventually go out of my mind, but it w...
