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- ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland
- People in story:Ìý
- William Edgar - 80 years old
- Location of story:Ìý
- Barrhead, East Renfrewshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8685156
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 20 January 2006
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Catherine Garvie, Learning Project Manager at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland on behalf of William Edgar from Barrhead in East Renfrewshire and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
I lived in Barrhead in a complex. I was about 14 or 15 years old and enemy planes were going overhead. I remember the noise they made ‘chug, chug, chug’. They were going to Clydebank and Yoker to blitz both towns.
A bomb dropped in Barrhead on the way back to Germany. They dropped it to lighten the load; they dropped the remainder of their bombs to get home quicker. Two or three of the air raid shelters in Barrhead got bombed and the stair collapsed in a local pub and killed the landlord!!
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