大象传媒

(This is a story written by Michael Chappell)

Before the war, my parents had a caravan and hut at Pevensey, Sussex. When war broke out, the hut was moved to a farm at Godstone, Surrey. One Sunday, in 1940, the whole family went on an outing to visit the hut. On returning to Whyteleafe, we found that a bomb had been dropped demolishing the back of our house. The bombers were either aiming at the railway line which was at the bottom of the garden or Kenley Aerodrome which was about half a mile away. Had we been at home, we would have been killed or badly injured.
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When the Flying Bombs started, my father decided it was too dangerous to stay in Whyteleafe, so my mother,sister and I went to St. Mary Church near Torquay. We used to walk along the cliffs near Torquay and, one day, my mother wanted to know the time. I ran down to ask the soldiers at the gun emplacement on the end of "Hope's Nose" only to find that these soldiers were all wooden dummies.

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