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A Strange Bathing: Blitz in Hillingdon

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Contributed by听: tizme44
People in story:听: PAMELA G DANNEAU.
Location of story:听: 40 GRESHAM RD HILLINGDON MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND
Article ID:听: A1997625
Contributed on:听: 09 November 2003

MY WIFE was around 5 years old at the time this occured to her: during a bombing air raid siren warning, her mother grabbed her and ran down the garden (about 75 yards to the end) and threw her into the shelter for safety. Her mum then ran back to the house to pick up her sister, Celia, and took her to the shelter - only to discover she had thrown her youngest daughter into a flooded shelter about 2ft deep!!

For all of us it worked out well though; she was wet and scared but safe!!

Another time, my wife and her school friends were machine-gunned by a German plane in the Catholic school grounds of St Bernadette's, Long Lane, Hillingdon in about 1943. Thankfully no one was hurt. ROY

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Message 1 - Machine Gunning of Civilians

Posted on: 02 February 2004 by cooksca

I read a contribution that spoke of children being machine gunned in a school playground of St Bernadette's.

This experience also happened to my uncle. One afternoon he was out with my father in the Roman Road in Bow. They were shopping.

A Nazi bomber appeared and flew down the Roman Road. The civilians scattered as the nose gunner fired on them. My father was pressed into a doorway tightly.

But his brother, Jim, was in the middle of the road swearing and gesticulating at the gunner. My father thought his brother was mad.

Later in the war Jim went on to be a Commando.

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