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This story was submitted to the 大象传媒 Peoples War by Mary Mowat

In 1940 my husband worked for 'Pool'. We had to go to Dover and folkstone to re fuel the boats going to Dunkirk. I remember all the bustle of the W.V.R.S and the Red Cross in Canterbury.
Then my baby son and I were evacuated on the same train bringing the walking wounded to wales. There we were bombed as we lived in St Athans (RAF). When I got home I used to watch the Spitfires fighting in the sky above and the crews bailing out.
One morning there was a terrific noise of planes and gliders on their way to Arnhem. Canterbury recieved a heavy bombing and we hid under a table to shelter wih our two sons. The windows blew in but were not broken.
Another time I was out shopping and without any warning a German fighter plane flew between the shops. Because the road was narrow it flew sideways and the pilot was laughing . Nobody was injured. Then on a busy Saturday afternoon a land mine was dropped in Burgate Street between the cathedral and the catholic Church. They still stood but everything else was rubble and many people were injured or killed.
We lived in Bomb alley so then we had flying bombs called 'doodlebugs'. We could also hear the shells from France and see the balloons over Herne Bay.

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