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I was an Operator Wireless and Line in the ATS. I was stationed in Southend-On-Sea. The signal office was in a three story house on the corner where Chalkwell Avenue crossed Queen Street.

The German recon planes had been over earlier in the day photographing the houseboats in the estuary at Leigh-On-Sea. They must have thought they were invasion barges as we were leading up to D-Day.

That night we had an air raid and a stick of bombs (3) was dropped in a direct line. One dropped on the beach, the next dropped a few yards away from the signal office and the third dropped in the hospital grounds.

All the crockery in the Sergeants Mess fell and was broken and all the blackouts fell from the windows. The Duty Sergeant slept on the top floor of our building and he came running down the stairs half dressed, pulling up his trousers to see if we were all alright. We were but we were extremely shaken. Our number wasn鈥檛 on the bombs so we are still here to tell the tale.

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