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15 October 2014
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Anti-Aircraft Guns

by CSV Action Desk Leicester

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CSV Action Desk Leicester
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Michael Marston
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Leicester
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Civilian
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A4399987
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08 July 2005

After the bombing raid, I remember a ring of anti-aircraft guns around Leicester, and a battery at Stoughton. My Dad was fire-watching the night a gun went off — a fearsome crack indeed! He’d never seen people move out into the street so quickly.

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