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Early September 1944, I was in the Middlesex Hospital at Isleworth, awaiting the birth of my first child. During the air raids we were told NOT to get out of our beds, but to pull our meal trolley up over our heads, then get under the bedclothes.

A flying bomb (buzz bomb) dropped in the hospital grounds and blew all the windows in!

None of us were hurt, one lady had hysterics, but only three went into labour, which surprised the doctors.

The V2 rockets were arriving by the 10th September. They travelled faster than sound and as they exploded, the sound arrived and the noise was terrifying.

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