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Mini Blitz in 1944 'Near Miss for the Palace'. As told by Allan Thipthorpe.

by The CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Wiltshire

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The CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Wiltshire
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Allan Thipthorpe
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London, Outside Buckingham Palace.
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Army
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A7210216
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23 November 2005

In the Summer of 1944 whilst I was stationed in Notting Hill Gate with 371 Company C.M.T.On a day off I was visiting the sights of London and was standing outside Buckingham Palace when suddenly you could hear, what sounded like a big motorbike in the sky. It was a V1 flying bomb with a ton of explosives.
It landed on the Guard's Chapel in Birdcage Walk and it looked like the sun had exploded. I heard later that at least 200 people who were attending morning service were killed. A near miss for the Palace that day.

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