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- 23 June 2004
Name: Peter Hayes
Location: Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Title: Coventry Blitz
When I was 16 my parents owned the Grey Hound Hotel in lutterworth, soldiers slept everywhere in the stables and the out buildings. My parents were too busy to worry about me. I worked at the LMS railway in Rugby, I had to bike to there everyday. I was doing the 2 till 10 shift on the day of the Coventry blitz in November. We were asked to volunteer to sort mail in Coventry as the blitz developed through the night. A bomb hit the end of an air raid shelter this killed many people, we rushed to help the wounded, this was the most disturbing event of the Blitz I saw. They finally picked us up from Coventry and took us back to Rugby at 10 the next day. My mother didn鈥檛 realise that I had gone and that I was even in the Blitz. When I was 17 I volunteered as Air Crew in the RAF. I was called up on the same day my brother was recorded missing. He was my elder brother; I also had another brother who went to Iraq. In the air force I went on only so 6 main raids. I came out of the RAF as soon as possible because my mother and father were so upset by my brother鈥檚 death.
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