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It was dangerous all the time while you were moving around 鈥� anything could have come down. You couldn鈥檛 see where you were because all the stations were blacked out. You had to count where you were and guess more or less.

There was bombing going on most of the time when we travelled. In fact the sirens were often going off. The planes would come over London, over to Dover and right across. You鈥檇 often see them calling the searchlights, and they鈥檇 be firing across. But as I say, you got used to it 鈥� it鈥檚 a funny thing to get used to, but you would and you鈥檇 take no notice.

I was with Margaret- my little girl once, and we were in a station waiting to board the train to go up to Tottenham to see my husband鈥檚 Mum, and suddenly this plane came flying down towards us and it was shooting all these bullets all around us. We had to run and hide in a dip there but it was firing at us all the time. Then it swerved and off it went again. It must have been firing what it had left at us, but that was frightening because you never knew what was going to hit you. (We took notice that time!)

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Doris Saunders and has been added to the site with her permission. Mrs Saunders fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Doris's stories:

• We weren鈥檛 prepared for war at all
• They鈥檇 all just started, like me
• That鈥檚 how we crossed paths
• You heard the 鈥渟wish鈥� of the rocket just before it landed on the house
• All you could see was his eyes
• You鈥檇 see a queue and just jump on the end
• Climbing trees and fences
• We had some fun with 鈥榚m
• He鈥檇 gone all the way round
• It was lucky I鈥檇 already got married

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