- Contributed by听
- CovWarkCSVActionDesk
- People in story:听
- WINIFRED HOPE
- Location of story:听
- COVENTRY
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5492522
- Contributed on:听
- 02 September 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Chloe Broadley of the CSV 大象传媒 Coventry and Warwickshire Action Desk on behalf of Win Hope and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I only had one fellow - we got married in 1937. I already had two little girls when war broke out. Luckily my husband was in a reserved occupation - you know, he did't have the call-up - as a millwright at the G.E C. They were all put on war work. My brother-in-law was in the forces till his lungs went. I was at home for the Blitz at Stoke Heath. My husband and a neighbour were holding on to a barrage balloon that had broken away from its moorings. They were strafed by the Luftwaffe. In our house the front and back doors were in a direct line: I had a bullet pass right through the house from front to back!
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