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I was on holiday in Truro with my family when an incendiary bomb dropped straight though the roof of my house in Lyme Road in Axminster. My husband was concerned the house may have been hit and rang a neighbour who went round and looked through the window only to report back that everything looked alright. However, my husband wasn't so sure and we all travelled back home. Inside the house we found a hole in the roof. A bomb had gone through the evacuee's bedroom with great force and then through the bedroom floor lino, leaving just a four inch hole. It then went through to the kitchen and we think it hit the bar on the mangle because it was badly bent. It then bounced off the mangle into a bucket of pickled eggs which doused it.

The kitchen had been our bolt hole where we would all have gone for safety had we been there and we would all have been killed.

Later Czech soldiers dug up 15 incendiaries in the garden. We must have been saved for some reason. I'm 97 now.

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