- Contributed by听
- covwarksactiondesk
- People in story:听
- Joy Johns (nee Dickinon)
- Location of story:听
- Coventry
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5142467
- Contributed on:听
- 17 August 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by ANgela Triggs of the CSV 大象传媒 Coventry and Warwickshire Action Desk on behalf of Joy Johns and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was 14 at the outbreak of war and just waiting for the results of my school certificate. The night of the Coventry blitz were were all at home, in our re-inforced dining room. We'd put a sideboard over the french windows ! After midnight a land mine dropped in Churchill Avenue, behind us and all the glass in our house shattered, as well as some of the bricks. Luckily we were not hurt.
We had lit a fire in the grate as it was such a cold night and when the bomb dropped my mother's first reaction was to say "We must put that fire out or they will see it from the air". There we were with Coventry ablaze all around us and she was worried about our tiny fire.
The next day Coventry was unrecognisable - so much had gone.
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