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- ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland
- People in story:Ìý
- Alasdair Gunn, Hugh Gunn
- Location of story:Ìý
- Constorphine, Edinburgh
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- Civilian
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- A5824659
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 20 September 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Allan Price, of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland, on behalf of Alasdair Gunn and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
In 1941 or 1942 when I was about eight years old, I remember coming home from school and seeing little white clouds puffing in the sky. Then I saw a couple of planes. Only then did I realise there was a dogfight going on high in the sky above me.
My father — Hugh — was a Lt Colonel in the Royal Artillery. He was in charge of the battery at Inchkeith, and it was this position that brought down the first German plane over Edinburgh.
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