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THE BOMBING OF THE HARBOUR

Mother and I had gone to meet my father from the produce export firm where he was a clerk, this was alongside the harbour so we were in the middle of the raid. We sheltered with others in a small lobby under a staircase in the warehouse. When we came out to walk home through ankle deep broken glass and masonry, mother was very distressed to see a pall of smoke where the mailboat had been in harbour and on which were many pupils of my school, the last batch to be evacuated. We were afraid the boat had been hit. As it happened, the captain had moved out under his own smoke screen and after the raid was over, the mailboat was far beyond Alderney, the northernmost island, heading for England and she reached port safely.
KAYE LE CHEMINANT

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