Les Cherrington was 19 years old when he was conscripted to WWII. Now 100, he recalls his early military training where he practiced using both sword and rifle.
Mervyn Kersch recounts life as an evacuee, having moved from London to Exeter at age 14. From a young age, he wanted to join the war effort to help 'fight for freedom'.
Bernd Koschland was 8 years old when he was brought to England on the Kindertransport. It wasn't until years later that he found out his parents died in Dachau concentration camp.
101 year old Eleanor Wadsworth is Britain's last surviving female Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) pilot living in the UK. She went on to pilot 22 different types of aircraft in the war effort.
Stanley Jones' family was one of the first to take in evacuee children from London. During the war, they became close friends with a young German soldier who had been taken as a prisoner of war.
