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I was three years old,when the war started, my father Thomas Goldsworthy worked with two horses on the farm.He joined the Home Guard.
When I was six years my father would harvest the corn until midnight.He would come home and have a good wash, as we had no bathroom. He would be in bed at one o'clock.
About two o'clock one morning the sirens sounded.The farmer Frederick Ash informed him that a bomb had dropped two fields away.
They had to stay by the crater until the Army arrived.
My father got home about five o'clock and sat in his chair and dozed.
He arrived at the farm to start work at two minutes past six o'clock.
The farmers' son Bill Ash said "You're two minutes late." My father replied, "When your dad wakes up just ask him where we were
until five o'clock this morning."
A few months later a German pilot hedge-hopped until a large hedge stopped the plane.The pilot jumped out and broke his ankle.A local farmer took him to hospital.Our house was less than half a mile from the plane crash incident.
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