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I remember the day war broke out. Listening to the radio, Mother jumped up and ran next door to tell them. We didn't have an air-raid shelter, only a ditch in the meadow, with faggot sticks to keep the cows out through the night. Father was in the Home Guard. We always listened to Lord Haw Haw on radio to see what he had to say.
There were sevice men in the village, some billeting in large houses, some in tents in fields. Also pidgeons were housed there; they carried messages across the channel. When we passed by, we often heard the soldier whistling them; thats how they were trained. There were AC-AC guns in the woods, and also search lights. Bombs dropped in the village, some on houses, and also killing cows in the fields.
My Mother worked the land, and when she was cycling home one afternoon, a German plane hedge-hopped along side her on the other side of the hedge! As it passed our cottages they were firing guns. We were playing in the garden. I always remember this; we ran into a glass-house built on the side of the house. There was also a corrugated iron barn away from the house. We were in the glass-house, listening to bullets hitting the barn. Luckily the glass-house wasn't hit! The plane was caught at Bawdsey with 8 Germans in it. We also had the G.I's at Debach. Their flight-path was right over our cottages. We counted them going on night missions; early next morning we counted them coming back, knowing how many were lost, and seeing the damage those had that came back!
At school we took those small packs of biscuits, plus other foodstuff and stored them in cardboard boxes in case we were trapped in school!

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