大象传媒

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Hannah Utting and Alice Capell from The Folkestone School for Girls and has been added to the website on behalf of Pamela Speedy with her permission and she fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

Pamela Speedy鈥檚 encounter with a German Bomber

Pamela Speedy was 11 years old when war broke out in 1939 and she lived in Bromley in North Kent about 10 miles from London with her parents Irene and John and her brother Peter.

One morning Pamela set out for school and her father said he would follow on afterwards. Part way through this journey she heard a German aeroplane following the road and flying very low. She turned round, face to face with the German aeroplane and after freezing for a moment; she threw self on the ground; near a wall as she had been told to do for protection. Later after telling her father, who responded by telling her that she should have gotten down quicker, she found that the plane she had encountered was the same plane that then went on to machine gun the London bound train at a nearby station called Shortlands. The same train that her mother was on. Fortunately Pamela鈥檚 mother was not amongst the injured.

Afterwards Pamela felt scared at what had happened to her and she also felt relieved that herself and her mother had not been harmed.

漏 Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.