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I remember the day war broke. Listening to the radio, mother jumped up, ran next door to tell them. We didn't have an air raid shelter, only a ditch in the meadow with faggots sticks to keep the cows out, through the night. Father was in the Home Guard. We always listened to Lord Haw-Haw on the radio to see what he had to say.
There were Service men in the village, some billeting in large houses, some in tents in fields. Also pidgeons were housed there, they carried messages across the channel. When we passed by we often heard the soldiers whistling them, that was how they were trained. There were AC AC guns in the woods, also search lights. Bombs dropped in the village, some on houses, also killing cows in the field. My mother worked on the land, and when she was cycling home one afternoon a german plane hedge hopped along side her on the other side of the hedge. As it passed our cottage they were firing guns. We were playing in the garden. I always remember this. We ran into a glass house built on the side of the house. There was also a corrigated iron barn away from the house. We were in the glass house listening to bullets hitting the barn. Lucky the glass house didnt have a hit. The plane was caught at Bawdsey, there was 8 Germans in it. We also had the G.I.'s at Debach. Their flight path was right over our cottage. We counted them going on night missions, early next morning we would count them back, knowing how many were lost, and seeing the damage those that had come back had.

At school we took those small packs of biscuits, plus other foodstuff and stored them in Cardboard boxes in case we were trapped in school.

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