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I was about 13 years old and it was the Nuneaton Blitz. First of all we hadn't got an air raid shelter but my dad reinforced the pantry.
I had two sisters and then there was mum and dad. When the sirens went we had to empty the pantry.
It was a new bomb they were using and it came down like a train.
They were actually after the railways and there was one running quite close to us.
On this occasion a bomb demolitioned an area near to us killing 13 members of one house.
We'd got the breakfast table ready and afterwards the cups and sugar bowl were full of soot.
My dad got us out of the pantry and took us to the field and everywhere was alight.
We met my sister and her children - their house had been bombed and they were coming to us.
We stopped in the fields and when we got back a piece of plaster was on the bed where we would have been sleeping.

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