- Contributed by听
- The CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Wiltshire
- People in story:听
- Allan Thipthorpe
- Location of story:听
- London, Outside Buckingham Palace.
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A7210216
- Contributed on:听
- 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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