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- A7431347
- People in story:听
- Kenneth Stoker
- Location of story:听
- River, Dover
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A4494413
- Contributed on:听
- 20 July 2005
This is a story that gives a sense of how exciting, and frightening, life could be for an adolescent schoolboy during the war.
My father had a hardware shop at River, near Dover. Because it had a garage area (an "Action Station") it housed a Fire Engine.
One day, I was standing in the yard, when a 'plane was attacked by enemy aircraft. It crashed at a paper mill at Buckland Mill. The pilot was able to bail out with his parachute, landing at Hillside Road. It turned out he was an English pilot from the Hurricane Auxiliary Service. Dad went with others in the Fire Service to check the Paper Mill hadn't been damaged -- I was 14 or 15 at the time.
It was exciting. Most boys at that time took an interest in 'plane recognition. I later became an instructor in aircraft recognition until I joined the Air Force myself in 1944. I later went on to the Air Sea Rescue Service.
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