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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Mike Millington of CSV on behalf of May Foster and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme

They dropped bombs in Chesterton in daylight at 4 o clock in the afternoon. My sister was coming from the village and saw him coming over the treetops in the plane and she could see the swastika. If anyone had had a rifle they could have shot at him he was so low.
The children had just come out of the picture palace matinee and he dropped the bombs on the picture palace.
One day we found a brick through the kitchen roof and one through the bathroom window. They found tin fruit that someone had been hoarding in their loft that had been blown all over the place/
A bomb fell just down the road next to my mother鈥檚 and between my mother鈥檚 and my sister鈥檚 house and it cut the house in half, it was heartbreaking but the people were safe in the shelter. Cut right in half, it was, the back bedroom, the living room and you could see the bedroom furniture ready to slide and fall onto the ground.

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