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I was born in 1933 was living in Colchester and remember being in bed with the measles when I said to my mother, 鈥渢he German planes are coming!鈥� My mother said, 鈥淒on鈥檛 be silly, no they are not!!鈥�

But then changed her mind when we heard the approaching planes overhead.

鈥淚 think you are right,鈥� she then said, 鈥渜uick get into shelter!鈥�

I then looked up and saw a German plane that was so low you could see the pilot sat in the cockpit of the plane with his goggles he was so close.

I saw bombs being dropped from the plane and then all hell broke loose as we had an army barracks just up the road.

Another time we had 3 Lancashire fusiliers staying with us. They then marched to Dunkirk and left behind a bag of Chinese chequers as a present for me to play with.

Then at the end of the war I remember seeing some soldiers who had no guns and looking lost as they had just been demobbed.

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