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I lived at Charsfied Horse Shoes pub with my Mother and two Sisters. I think it was 1942; early one morning we were woken up by big bangs. My mother said we had better go downstairs, so we went and we all huddled together under a big table in the smoke room (or public room). We looked out of the window and the field in front was full of incendiary bombs. They had set fire to a farm about a mile away (Mr Westons farm), I think the Germans thought they had bombed Ipswich according to 'Lord Haw Haw' the next day.
When the raid had finnished I went into the kitchen which had been built on; when I opened the door into the kitchen an incendiary bomb lay on the floor! The bomb had come through the roof and hit the edge of a brick built copper. Thank goodness it never went off! They dropped high explosive bombs in an orchard; parachutes lay everywhere; trees were laying on top of one annother!
There was a bread basket just down the road which had contained the incendiary bombs.
I reported the incendiary bomb to the Police when they came; I got a real telling off, then they took it away and exploded it. Nobody in the village was hurt that night.

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