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During the London blitz as a boy of 8 or 9 years I lived in Chingford,Essex,(sometimes classed as a London suburb.)My Aunt and Uncle were living with us because they had been bombed out of their small grocery business with flat above in Dalston.
One night during an air raid my Uncle and father were unwisely watching the activity in the air,when they saw a parachute descending over the allotments beyond the road and railway situated at the front of our house.Naturally they thought it was an airman that had to bail out and so they watched it descend until it touched the ground.Unfortunately it was in fact a landmine dropped by the enemy and it exploded on contact with the earth and blew the two men right from the front door to the back kitchen door!Fortunately no-one was injured although it blew in all our front windows and brought down some ceilings.Incredibly I was asleep in the back downstairs room and slept right through the proceedings!

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