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Tony Hobbs interviewed at the Guille-Alles Library by Becky Kendall of Radio Guernsey 5/2/2005. Transcribed by John David 9/11/2005

There鈥檚 only one other thing I can really remember, is, at the beginning of the war, I was living as I say in a flat up above with my mother and father, and I was sitting at the window on the day of the raid and I saw the planes come in, with my mother, and I can still remember that, as if its something that happened two days ago, its imprinted in my mind. The planes were coming over Herm, and they were making noises, but it was machine gun noises, and she said 鈥淭hey鈥檝e got engine trouble鈥� and as they passed over the harbour they dropped bombs, and all over where the Herm boats go in now there were big sheds there, Cambridge berth, there used to be big sheds all over, and I didn鈥檛 see the bomb drop, I saw the sheds going up in the air, just like television.
My mother picked me up, carried me downstairs, put me underneath a table with a few other children, and in those days there were a lot of horses used to take the tomatoes, and they were flat out round the Salerie corner, probably scared to hell, and I was sitting there with these other children, and all of a sudden somebody brought my grandfather in, because he used to work on the harbour, and what happened was, he鈥檇 had a bit of stone or something right across the bridge of his nose, [ ] otherwise it would have blinded him, and of course his face was absolutely full of blood, and these two men brought him in, because he knew that his daughter was living there, and my mother sat him down in a chair and bathed his face.

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