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My father never went into detail about the war, but one thing he often told was about when he was on the beach at Dunkirk. He said he was among the last to leave and that he was sitting waiting and looking out at the ships and boats and among them I think there must have been a submarine as he said all of a sudden he saw a torpeso heading for the beach. He ran along with others out of the way saying amongst other things "as if we haven't enough to put up with without our own trying to kill us." He got off the beaches safe, but I don't know how, he later discovered that the reason the torpedo was fired was so that they could get more on to it. He was a member of the Dunkirk Veterans Stoke-on-Trent branch and was relaying this tale at one of there meetings and he said you just wouldn't beleive it. The man listening with a smile on his face said I would I was the Captain that gave the order to fire. My father is no longer with us and I often wonder what sqadron he was in and how he came to be on the beach. I wish that he had told us or wrote us his memories so that we could pass this information on to our grandchildren. Please if you like my dad never told your children then leave a note with your memories on so that they will know and then it will not be forgotten.

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