Soon after coming out of our tin hotel 'Anderson shelter', Christmas 1940, sleepy, dirty and covered in dust, it dawned on me that it was Christmas day ! A cold, bright morning but with the smell of ...

At the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Honolulu, a man walked in with an aluminum toy ray gun—unloaded, of course. The water pistol was called the Hiller Atom Ray Gun and was made in 1948, part of the wave of ...

The United States entered World War 2 with the largest industrial base in the entire world. Raw materials, manufacturing capacity, and able-bodied workers are part of what made the war effort swing in ...

Archive List > Books > Tin Hats and Toy Guns by Arnold Long Tin hats and toy guns chapter four Life carried on. I was taking my gas mask everywhere I went and trying not to be noticed. I did get taken ...

I was taking my gas mask everywhere I went and trying not to be noticed. I did get taken to Wales during the school holidays quite a lot. Aunty Muriel stayed at the cottage with her new baby for some ...

Archive List > Books > Tin Hats and Toy Guns by Arnold Long TIN HATS AND TOY GUNS chapter two Evacuated ..... sort of ? By far my favourite radio programme was ' Into Battle '. each week I sat by the ...