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My first memories were when I started school when I was 5 in 1941. I can remember the sirens and heard the enemy planes taking the route up the Thames towards London.
We has a Morrisons Shelter in the house with the Anderson outside but we never used that one. At school we had to shelter in the cloakroom. I can remember having to carry gasmasks to school. At school we would have lectures by officials who told us what not to pick up.
I was living in a villge called Danbury and one night we were woken by a hugh explosion and it was only when we were going to school the following morning did we realise that the Church had been hit.
There was a lot of common land around the area which was occupied by Ac-Ac and searchlights. One night we were watching an aircraft in the beam of a searchlight being shot at and I unknowingly extracted a milktooth. All the large houses were occupied by military.
I have a vivid memory of American Forces arriving with Belltents and camping on the common. Then they left as suddenly as they came presumably to the D-Day landings.
I can remember the doodlebugs and later on POWs.
5 of us were on a country walk and we heard a plane overhead but saw nothing. Metal hit the road but none of us was hit by it - providence

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