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During the war we would go to Preston Park for sports sessions. We had been taught to lay on the floor with our hands behind our head to protect us if at anytime we were machine-gunned. One particular day the sirens had gone, followed by the ‘pips’. This was a warning that the planes were overhead. We all lay down as we were told and the planes flew very low above us, which was quite frightening as we thought that they would machine-gun us. As the planes flew away, the Canadian troops that were stationed around the park, came and gradually took us under the trees and then under the lorries. I can still remember the feeling that I was going to be shot. The planes did fly back again and drop several bombs along the coast

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