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My dad had some leave just before D-Day (he was involved in D-Day on the first day) and while we were waiting for him to arrive me and mom decided to go the pictures. We let dad know where we were going so that he wouldn't worry if he arrived before we got back. We told him we were going to Odeon.

But when we got to the Odeon all the seats had gone so we had to go to the other cinema in town called the Flea Pit, for obviously reasons! But the seats were only 2s9d so that was ok.

Anyway, during the evening an aerial mine was dropped on our town. (An aerial mine is a big black iron ball with spikes sticking out, each spike explodes on impact.) My dad was cycling down into the town just arriving on leave and he got thrown off his bike into the allotments. The mine took the roof off the Odeon and finally hit the first house of a row of cottages and it lifted every cottage off its foundations!

Dad was worried because we said we were going to the Odeon but we turned up safe and well.

The next day, one woman who lived in those cottages made the police go and search her house. She had left a 2LB lump of beef in the big iron cooker and she was determined that she was getting it back! Well after some searching through the rubble they found the cooker - intact with the beef right as rain inside!

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