大象传媒

was born in Kent, just outside London and was 6 or 7 years old when war broke out.
We had travelled to Pembrokeshire to visit my mother's relations in the autumn of 1939. The very first German 'plane I ever saw flew over Pembroke Docks, my mother assured me that it was British, but I knew that it was a German one by the sound. We looked out over Pembroke Docks; watched the German aircraft bombing the docks and saw them ablaze. It was a "sight to remember" for a young boy.

John Atkins

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