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This contribution to People鈥檚 War was received by the Action Desk at 大象传媒 Radio Norfolk and submitted to the website with the permission and on behalf of Mrs Barbara H Smith
Towards the end of the War at the age of 14 living in London, east Sheen SW14 I was looking out of my bedroom window one night and saw this strange looking aircraft going across the sky with a flame coming out of its tail and making a peculiar clanking noise. It disappeared out of sight and I read in the newspaper the next morning that the first V1 weapons had been sent over from Germany (we called them 鈥渄oodle bugs鈥�).
The V2 weapons that followed on were far worse as they were rockets which landed anywhere without warning. I was walking through Temple Gardens one day when one landed everyone threw themselves on the ground. I don鈥檛 know how many casualties that one caused.

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