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One day a Fairy Battle Bomber pulling the target across the water for the spitfire planes to practice on came across Sudbrook. The plane accidently dropped the weight from the and the attached rope. The 15 lb lead weight hit the telephone wires, breaking them and then hit the handle of a pram and crashed into the ground breaking the tiles. The baby in the pram survived with no injuries.

The Prisoner of War camp at Llanmartin was home to German prisoners. One night 70 prisoners escaped. They found most of them in the marshalling yards and chased them. Two were caught in the hayrack at Sudbrook. A young boy called Brian Rees discovered them when they stepped out in front of him giving him a real fright.

I worked in the timber yard at Portskewett during the war. We received packing cases which brought the lorries and jeeps to this country from America arriving at the docks in Newport.

The packings was sent to Machan for the lorries to be taken out. The packing was then sent to Portskewett, now knows as Wedgewood Drive. The man took the cases apart and they were taken to a shed where the ladies took out the nails. The ladies received a halfpenny per pound for the nails as well as they wages.

The wood was then sent off the all parts of the UK.

The Caldicot Pill was an RAF camp during the war. It then became a council depot and is now a housing estate.

The Amercians were stationed in Portskewett woods by the crossways just before D-day.

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