- Contributed by听
- musicalbanny
- People in story:听
- Margaret
- Location of story:听
- Lincoln
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4418868
- Contributed on:听
- 10 July 2005
A memory comes back after watching to-day's flyover. Does anyone else remember the 2 Spitfires that collided over Lincoln one light summer evening. I can still see one of the pilots parachuting to safety but at least 2 people were killed when one of the planes landed on a garage down the south end of the city.
Then there was a Lancaster bomber that crashed after limping back from a raid and didn't quite reach its airfield.Instead it crashed on a house killing a 12 year old girl. I was about 9 and rowing on a boating lake not far away. Lincoln knew alot about aeroplanes and we had alot of air-raid warnings but not very many actual raids.
We moved to London on Jan 1st 45 so got the end of the V-bombs. I really understood fear then!
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