U-boats 123, 205, 360
Uley Bury (Iron Age hill fort) 40
Uley, Gloucestershire 40
Ullapool 356
Ultra 205
underground dens 81–5, 89
underground storage
art treasures 187–94
munitions 183–7
personal possessions 194–5
United States War Department 248
University College of North Wales, Bangor 187
Upper Castle Hayes Farm, Tutbury (Staffordshire) 186
Upton House, Gloucestershire 112
US Air Force 259–67
82nd Airborne Division 254
385th Bombardment Group 261
386th Bombardment Group 238
389th Bombardment Group 263
Abbotsinch airport 253
Flying Fortresses 399
US Army 253, 257
4th Armored Division 369
6th Armored Division 369
83rd Division 370
V Corps 315–16
US Eighth Air Force 73, 257–9
USAF bases
Burtonwood, Lancashire 264–5
Great Ashfield, nr Bury St Edmunds 261
Hethel Airfield, Norfolk 263
Ridgewell, Essex 261
V-weapons 1, 201–2, 282, 379–88
Vaisey, Mr Justice 214
VE Day (1945) 75
Vemork, Norway 355
Verity, Hedley 279–80
Victoria and Albert Museum 187, 190
Viktor of Hohenlohe-Langeburg, Prince 67
village life and entertainments 100–1
VJ Day (1945) 408–9
Vollum, R. L. 357
Wagstaff, Mrs 156
Wainwright, Martin 49–50
Wakefield, Sir Humphry 233–4
Wallace, Frank 310
Wallace, Grace 155, 160
Walsingham, George de Grey, 8th Lord 331
Walthamstow, London 36
Wanborough Manor, Surrey 199
‘War Ags’ see County War Agriculture Executive Committees
war babies 265–7
War Cabinet 105, 402
War Office 60, 61, 62, 183, 296, 332, 333, 342, 350, 353
War Office 407
Ward, Sadie 20
Warminster, Wiltshire 257
Waters, Doris 129–30
Waters, Elsie 129–30
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited 72, 197–8
Put Out More Flags 39
The Way to the Stars (aka Johnny in the Clouds) (film, 1945) 264
Webster’s Forester’s Diary and Pocket Book 171
Welfare state 407
Wellington Barracks, London 380
Wembley Stadium 291
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham 412
West Indies cricket team 279
West Malling, Kent 105
West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire 386
Wester Ross 357
Westerdale, Yorkshire 307
Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor ‘Bendor’, 2nd Duke of 72, 300, 301
Weston Hall, Northamptonshire 150
Westwood Quarry, nr Bath 190
‘Wetbob’ see Landing Craft Assault
Wetherby race course 290
Weymouth, Dorset 34, 104, 107, 369
Wheatcroft, Harry 135
Whipsnade Zoo, Dunstable Downs 313
White Fish Zoning Scheme 125
White, Lieutenant Ted 334
White Vision (pigeon) 276–7
Whitley, Herbert 316
Wick, Cathness 103–4
Wickwar, Gloucestershire 173
Williams, Tom 287
Wills, Tony 324–5
Windsor Castle 223, 224, 372
Windsor Great Park 303, 391–2
Windsor race course 290
Wins, Gerrit 322
Wintringham, Tom 62
Woburn Abbey, Buckinghamshire 207
Wolfe, Joan Pearl 254–5
Wolverhampton 285
women
as aircraft pilots 178–9
as ambulance drivers 177
as members of the ARP 177–8
as members of WVS 181–2
as tree-fellers 174–7
see also Land Girls
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) 201, 245
Women’s Forestry Service 174–7
Women’s Home Guard Auxiliaries 88
Women’s Institute 100, 136–7, 146–7, 156
Women’s Land Army see Land Girls
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 362
Women’s Royal Voluntary Service 181–2
Women’s Volunteer Service (WVS) 128, 136, 208
Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire 136
Woods, Beryl 118
Woods, George 118, 119, 120, 121
Woods, Jeff 118–21
Woodstock, Oxfordshire 48
Woolton, Lord 125, 128–32, 141, 146, 152
Worcester 72–3
Worcester Golf Club 285
Workers’ Playtime (radio programme) 114
works of art, storage of 187–94, 321
Worshipful Company of Dyers 278
Worshipful Company of Vintners 278
Worthing, Sussex 61, 81
Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School, High Wycombe 258–9
Wyndham, John 296
Wyton Airfield 88
Xcraft submariners 357, 455–6
XII Corps 80, 82–3
Yalta Conference (1945) 202
York 109
Younger, Lieutenant Tony 357–8
zoos
anecdotes 313, 314, 315
animals put down 312
bombing of 312, 314, 315
feeding the animals 315
moving animals from place to place 312–13, 317
requisitioned by the military 315, 316–17
as sources of pleasure 314
visitors to 315–16
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