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"During the war I worked in the Service Corps. This meant that I traveled around the country and did not see a lot of my home. However, before I was sent to my first posting, I lived with my mother, father and sister in our house in Sharnbrook. We received a great number of air raid warnings during this time because of how closely situated we were to London. However, we were so small that we were rarely the target of any German bombers. Having said this, I can remember the occasion when the first bomb was dropped on just outside of Sharnbrook. It was at the weekend and we were sitting at home together. Suddenly the house began to shake as if an earthquake had hit. It desisted as soon as it had started, but it scared my father so much that he ran to the stairwell and did not re surface for 10 minutes. The rest of us stayed in the kitchen wondering what had happened. We found out later that it had been a lone German bomber who had targeted the main road outside Sharnbrook, just 1 mile from our house. There was a massive clean up of the area. I was very scared at the time because it was my first real experience of what it was like to be attacked. However, despite the temporary intrusion this caused us, we found ourselves getting back to our everyday lives. There was to be 2 more bombs of the same nature through out the war, but I was not there to witness its effects."

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