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There were a lot of attacks on Ipswich.

From our backgarden in Henslow Road, Ipswich, my father and I saw a German plane machine gunning our street. The bullets hit the roof of a house a couple of doors away.

Nearby Saint Andrew's Church, opposite Turner's, was completely destroyed in a raid.

We didn't have our own Anderson's shelter, but went to our neighbour's. We later had a Morrison shelter, like a very low table, with a mattress for extra protection.

I was supposed to be evacuated to Canada. I had all the injections but then they changed their minds and I went to Bury St Edmunds. Maybe this was because of ships getting hit in the Atlantic. Bury wasn't much safer than Ipswich. At school when there were raids we had to run over the playground to the shelter.

One real memory I have is towards the end of the war. I was in Ipswich. The sky was dark with Lysanders and gliders on their way to Arnham in Holland.

Reproduced with permission by Ipswich Museum.

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