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This story was told to me by one of the porters at Oxford's County Hall, when I worked there in the late 1970s.
According to him, only one bomb was dropped in the Oxford area during the war. A German bomber left its squadron during a raid on the south coast, came up to Oxfordshire, and dropped its bomb in a field across the river from a pub. Naturally, it had used up too much fuel, and came down in England, and the pilot was taken in for interrogation.
When asked why he had jeopardised his mission in order to drop one bomb so far off target, the pilot replied: 'When I was an undergraduate at Oxford University, I once took a girl to dinner in that pub. The food was atrocious. Then and there I resolved to destroy it!'

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