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This contribution is posted by Torfaen Libraries on behalf of Evelyn Handy, Talywain, South Wales

During the war I worked at ‘the dump’ — Glascoed Munitions Factory. I remember one day as we were queuing by the clocking machine waiting to clock out for lunch and suddenly a plane flew over, shooting at us with machine gunfire — we were terrified and were told to lay on the floor. I could clearly see the pilot in the aeroplane — it was that close! There was an awful commotion and one girl fainted and had to go to hospital. We heard later that the plane was shot down at Chepstow.
Later in the year I worked as a Matron’s maid in London and I used to listen to the bombs going off at night.

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