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I remember when they actually arrived to occupy the island, I was with my Mum and Dad in the fields tending the cattle at the Corbiere, behind the Manoir. I said to Mum ‘I can hear planes’. She said ‘No you can’t. Don’t frighten us.’ I can remember her saying ‘Don’t frighten us’. And by the time we arrived home they had landed on the airport. And all I can remember is that they put a guard at the crossroads at Plaisance, that’s just above what used to be White Gables Hotel which is now the Mallard. And they had a guard there who stopped and searched everybody that went past. And there’s only a plane load that arrived the first time, and the next day the Junkers started arriving in. And that was how they arrived. It arrived in the evening, one plane.
RAYMOND TOSTEVIN

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