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The Germans chose to bomb Clydeside on the night of the full moon. My family were farmers & fruitgrowers, whose land extended right down to the riverside just opposite John Brown's shipyard. They had a large acreage of greenhouses which glistened in the bright moonlight. The Germans scored a direct hit, mistakenly, on the greenhouses & the farmhouse & outbuildings, a scene of utter destruction. To this day the fragments of glass remain. Their target of the industry on the opposite bank remained intact. My family were homeless & Granpa was so affected, by his whole life's works destruction & so misunderstood at that time that he was thrown into a mental home where he spent the rest of his life.

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