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- Thanet_Libraries
- People in story:听
- Peter Burford
- Location of story:听
- Cornwall and London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2696835
- Contributed on:听
- 03 June 2004
My memories are of being evacuated when I was 5 to a farm of mixed crops and livestock. I collected eggs and learnt to milk cows. It was very difficult at such a young age to see the fires at night over Plymouth. I also remember waving to the crew of a crippled German bomber.
Back in London I remember playing in the bomb rubble watching the V1s falling from the sky: "It's OK the wind is taking it away, carry on playing!"
On D-Day I was awake at 4.30am and I looked out of my bedroom window and saw wave after wave of bombers. Why the black and white stripes, I wonder? They keep coming over for hours.
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