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As my family lived about two miles from Pendeford Airport, Wolverhampton, I was used to seeing and hearing aeroplanes taking off and landing, so I wasn鈥檛 taking much notice of a circuling plane one Sunday afternoon, while I was feeding our three ducks in the garden. I was about thirteen at the time, so the year was probably 1941. I think it was the sound of the planes engine which made me look up, suddenly the plane flew down as if to land and I heard three large thuds. The plane then shot up into the sky followed by what I thought were tracer bullets, which didn鈥檛 quite reach the plane. The next thing I remember was my father ( who was in the Home Guard ) shouting to me to get into the shelter, quick!. I later found out that 3 bombs were dropped in a field near to Boulton-Paul Aircraft ltd, which was adjacent to Pendeford Airport. In 1942, I went to work in the offices of Boulton-Pauls as a teleprinter operator, the fighter Defiant with the famous gun turret was being built there at the time.

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