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I was about twelve years old and my brother who was eight years younger than me (about four at the time) had just started at a new school on the way to my school. We had gone home for lunch and were on our way back. We had just about got level with his school when the air raid started. One of his teachers at the entrance to the school grabbed him quickly and i proceeded to my own school. I heard a noise above me, looked up and there was a dog fight in progress. I hurried on to my own school and was about to go up the stairs to the field, to the air raid shelters, when a British plane came over the field very very low. The pilot saw about six hundred children running across the playing field and rose up sharply to avoid them.

The next morning our headmaster told us that the pilot had seen the children and dispite the plane being badly damaged he sacrificed his own life to save the children.

The entire school stood in two minutes silence.

This happened in around 1941.

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