- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Jim Ellis
- Location of story:听
- Hollesley
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3910826
- Contributed on:听
- 18 April 2005
At the end of 1941 we moved to Hollesley, one evening my mother had taken my brother and me to a whist drive as she could not trust us to be left alone.
As the ladies were playing, we heard the sound of a doodlebug approaching. Everyone stopped talking and waited. We heard the engine stop and immediately the ladies all hid under the wafer-thin card tables with their bottoms in the air and their underwear on full display. Peter and I spent the next twenty minutes convulsed with giggles. In actual fact, the doodlebug landed on the marshes some five miles away.
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