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German Bombing of Guernsey, 1940
Edited transcription from a taped interview with John De Jersey
One of my school friend鈥檚 brothers was killed in the air raid, he was in a tomato lorry, he got killed down there, and I remember everyone in the lane at the Villocq, of course had never been involved in anything like that, and I remember everybody going along close to the wall, squatting down, making their way to Saumarez Park to hide, and it was quite a frightening time, you know, you could see the flames, and also they were machine-gunning, strafeing the Island with machine-guns as they were going across, and where I had been watering at my father鈥檚 greenhouses down at the Prinses, where the Prins Estate is, if I鈥檇 been there, there were bullet holes through the greenhouses, which were for no reason. And I believe that, at that time, at least it was said, that there was a little child playing in the sand pit, and there were bullet holes all round where the child had been. That I can鈥檛 verify, its just what I heard..

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