- Contributed by听
- Essex Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Margaret Mallet & Mrs. Plumb
- Location of story:听
- Ipswich & Suffolk
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4669211
- Contributed on:听
- 02 August 2005
I was aged seven and myself, my Brother, Sister and one neighbour were in an Anderson Shelter during an Air Raid. Our Mother was in the kitchen boiling a kettle when an Incendary bomb landed on the apex of the shelter.
Mother poured the kettle of water over the bomb and it didn't ignite. She had to boil another kettle too.
An infants Gas Mask was put on my Sister who was only five months old. She screamed her head off because she objected to it. I can also remember a basket of Incendary bombs fell on a local senior School (Westbane Senior) during an Art class and luckily there were not casualties.
My Husband was an Air Warden and during an black out he bumped into a pile of sand bags and apologised as he couldn't see if they were people or not.
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