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Uncle Tom worked at Scampton as one of the ground staff, he used to bike there. He took me for rides on his bike sat on a seat on thecross bar. A short time after the Dambusters Raid I went to the airfield perimeter with him. He said he was going to show me a special plane. Inside the fence you could hear engines revving up, then the noise changed and I could see a Lancaster on the ground, it then slowly staggered off the ground and only just cleared the fence. It was indeed different, it had a big piece hanging down from it. Slowly it circled the valley and the village and then climbed. This was a grand slam bomb to bomb submarines, it was only one bomb on a plane because it was so big.

Another day we biked into Lincolnand biked down Firth Road onto a road which was concrete. There they were building tanks. We would watch the men loading the tanks onto wagons and then onto trains.

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