大象传媒

I was only 8 years old when war broke out. Like many other children I really didn鈥檛 know what this entailed, until the blitz in 1942. I was ten years old by then. One Friday night we had dive bombers overhead and on the Saturday still more bombing. However, on the Sunday afternoon, as we were walking by the canal, we saw a German plane exchange fire with a gun on the moors near Exeter. That same night when the siren went, my father took my mother and I to the quay, where there were garages with about 20 foot of soil on top of them. We went into the garage which looked out towards the gasometer. I still remember how a bomb hit this and the whole lot exploded.

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