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I lived at Charsfield Horse Shoes Pub with my mother and two sister. I think it was 1942 early one morning we were woken up by big bangs. My mother said we had better go downstairs so we went and we all huddled under a big table in the smoke room ( or public room). We looked out of the window and the field in front was full of Incendry Bombs. They had set fire to a farm about a mile away (Mr Westons farm). I think the Germans thought they bombed Ipswich according to Haw Haw next day.
When the raid had finished I went into the kitchen which had been built on. When I opened the door to the kitchen an Incendry bomb laid on the floor. I picked the bomb up and carried it up the garden and put it under a wooden barrow, when I went back to the kitchen the fin of the bomb laid on the floor, the bomb had come through the roof, hit the edge of a brick built copper, thank goodness it never went off. They dropped High Explosive Bombs in an Orchard, Parachutes laid everywhere, trees were laying on top of one another.
There was a Bread Basket just down the road which had contained the incendry bombs.
I reported the Incendry Bomb to the police when they came I got a real telling off, then they took it away and exploded it. Nobody in the village was hurt that night.

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