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My maiden name is Patricia Osborne, it was I think 1943 or 1944. I was only a child, but I still remember as if it was yesterday. I lived in Plowden, Glebe Farm, Stechford. My Mother was talking to the next door neighbour, Mrs. Smith, in the back garden. I was standing on the porch, watching a plane circling. It was making a noise as if something was wrong with it. It was daytime, and all of a sudden the plane started to come down very quickly, it started firing at my mother and Mrs. Smith. My mother grabbed me and fled into the house, so did the neighbour. She called her daughter Jean who was playing in the front garden. I was told when I was older that the plane came down somewhere in the back of Glebe Farm. The plane was trying to bomb the factory, either Parkinson鈥檚 of Alcan-Booth. Sometime after, my sister Sylvia found the shrapnel in the garden.

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