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My mother and I lived in Plymouth until 1941, and left when the worst of the Blitz was over. We moved to Exmouth. I was at the grammar school in Exmouth and there were a lot of German bombers passing overhead. This was the route they took on their return from bombing raids and they used to jettison their unused payloads on their way home.
There was a Bren Gun Carrier stationed near the school and it fired on one of these german planes one day while we were at school. We hear d the noise and got under our desks for cover. The bomber must have thought we were a barracks and dropped its bomb, but it had to swerve and the bomb hit a nearby house instead.
When we came out from under the desks and went outside there were feathers everywhere. The bomb had destroyed the home and the feather bed inside!
NOTE: Look in Exmouth museum - there's a book by a German pilot which may have dropped that very bomb!

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