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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Dianne Burtrand of Chelmsford Library on behalf of Mrs Reeve and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

I was home from school on December 22nd 1944 and at 12 noon there was a big red flash but no sound and a rocket had dropped approximately 200 yards away and all our windows were blown out.
My mother narrowly missed being cut to pieces as she had just moved to get another iron from the fire to finish her ironing when the flash came.
The front walls of my Grandparent鈥檚 house, which were made of lime and plaster, were completely torn away.
The Yanks invited all the children to a Christmas party at Wethersfield as a present and treat after the bomb.

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