大象传媒

I volenteered to be a spotter during the war in Bedford. I remember on an evening having to go on a traing in course to idenify planes. The first time I came to use these skills I idenified the plane above as a Mitchell - an American plane. The next time I looked up again and I saw ten bomb doors opening and four bombs dropping down. I realised it was in fact a German bomber. I thought that the bombs would land in the same street as myself so i lay behind a wall to protect myself. One of the bombs landed in a scrapyard and another coal storage for a railway. I got coal dust and metal scraps coming down the street. The bomb that landed in the coal mine also picked up a piece of the railway track and flung it about 400 yards away. Most people thought that the war was not planed but I realised otherwise when I saw that the date of which the bomb was produced was 1936. This just proves that Hilter had been planing the war for at least three years before the war actually began
My other memories is of my relatives in Coventry. They had to go down into the blast shelter and a bomb was tropped between their house and the shelter. Everyone one of them was injured as the walls of the shelter collapsed and the roof fell in. The son was the only person who wasn't injured because he nevere made it into the shelter. I remember them coming to stay with us in Bedford looking as if they had just come out the war themselves. The Father had a fractured skull with a bandage round his head and the eldest daughter had a broken pelis with a corset to stop her from moving. The other son had his leg brokenin two places so he had a plaster cast from his ankle to his hip and the other dughter had a broken arm.

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