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I lived at Skegness from 1943 to 1943 in a house on St Andrews Drive off Sea View Road. As I lay in bedone Sunday morning the air raid sirens went, followed by bangs and the ground trembled. A plane approached very low and loud barely clearing the chimney pots of houses opposite. A fighter followed and I later found out the plane had been brought down in the sea about half a mile on the North Shore. At low tide for along time you could see the tail plane out of the water. The plane had bombed the Tower Cinema near the Clock Tower and houses in Park Avenue. Years later I found out the plane was on a mission to the West Midlands, probably Coventry, and had become detached from it's group, turned back and dropped the bombs on Skegness.

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