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- ActionBristol
- People in story:听
- Harry Ward
- Location of story:听
- Filton
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4022650
- Contributed on:听
- 07 May 2005
I was employed there building air raid shelters. There was many small raids and warnings there for which we didn't get paid, so to get round that they used to have a second warning and we used to work until the second warning. In September 1940 we were working very close to the main road - everyone else had gone to the shelter - and I was interested in the army going past on exercise. They were passing in 'sections' - 6 men on each side - and suddenly the noise of the guns started up. We looked up and the sky was full of planes. We all rushed into the shelter - which wasn't finished - and for a few seconds it was like hell let loose and when we came out of the shelters there was cars close by burning. But thesad story of this was that the bombing had gone right through the army and when we came out there was many of them scattered around on the road. That was my first experience of heavy bombing.
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