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This story was submitted to the Peoples War website by Mike Kerins on behalf of John Fleming and has been added with his permission
I was talkiing to someone a few years ago about planes and airshows, and things and a gentleman said to me that he had seen a plane that i would never see, or at least never see fly. The plane in question was the German ME 265, the equivalent of the British meteor jet fighter.
The man was a seargeant in the marines and he told me that in the war he was billeted in a hotel in Germany. He was sat in the room with his mates when they heard the screaming of jet engines coming towards them.They looked out of the window to see the jet below the window of their billet straafing the street with machine gun fire. Seconds later they heard an almighty bang; when the dust had settled they opened the door to their room only to find the whole back of the hotel had been blown off and was gone.To get out of their room they had to climb down using ropes and ladders.

I also remember my father telling me of an experience he had in the war. He was on guard at an airfield in the Stroud Valley. There was an air raid so all the lights would immediately be turned off by a master switch. On this occassion they tried to switch off the lights but they had been sabotaged by someone re-wiring the switch so that they would stay on. The only solution was that everyone with a gun, including my father, was ordered to run around the camp shooting out all the lights.

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