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My family and me; comprising4 brothers and young sister and my Mother Mrs.J.M.Stephenson; we were in Mandalay at the time, in the morning when we were bombed and strafed with machine gun fire.
There was no Air Raid Trenches, so my Mother
called to us her children to come in to the house; but my Brothwer Oswald and myself went out into the open to see what was happening; not with standing the risk that we could have been killed.While we were outside, both of us were wounded by flying sharpnel of wood and steel.
We still have the scars of war on our calves.when the Japenese bombers flew back to their base, we had a 3 mile walk to the nearest First Aid station, on the way there I pulled out a chunk of wood from my left calf, and was cut deep in the right calf by a steel splinter. Other members of my family were also injured by flying shrapnel
it took 6months for the wound in my left leg to heal and 9 months for the right calf to heal.; but not fully; as a small piece of steel worked it's way uot after 55years!
A fewn days later we were evacuated to India by air in a Docakta DC3; aircraft.
The reason why we were priveledged to fly out of Burma, was because my father had to serve as an essential worker right until the fall of Burma to the JapAnese Forces; he being an engineer in the Irrawaddy Foltila, evacuating The British Forces.
Most of Mandalay was burnt down in the air-raids as the house were built of timber.
My father eventually stayed behind in Burma As he did not think he would survive the trek through the jungle to india and was in turned by the Japanese, and even made to work for them for the duration of the war until 1945 when Burma was liberated.
Me and my brothers now live in the U.K my eldesst brother was killed in action at Mychinna in 1945 and my youngest brother died in april 2004, and my sister died in 1998 here in London. End of Story.

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