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The sirens went early one afternoon and the planes were flying low (Germans). My mother started out to fetch me from school about a mile away from home when suddenly the planes dived low and machine gunned the people walking along the road. My mother got close to the wall and laid flat on the ground. Fortunately she escaped being hit and finally got to school. That night my school was burned to the ground with incendiary bombs.

The other time my father was away and the sirens went and everyone went to get shelter. We had to go 2 houses away to a reinforced cellar. Before we managed to get to the shelter we were thrown from the front door to the bottom of the stairs by the bomb blast.

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