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When the war began I was eight years old, amd wemt to Gt. Barford village school. One day during 1942, when coming home from school I saw three spitfires attacking a German Melterschmidt, which crashed into Eaton Socon. I remember a V1 "doodlebug" exploding in Green End. Great Barford, spme windows were broken and a ceiling came down. No one was hurt it had landed in a field! During the war we had a mother and two children stay with us. They came from Woodford in Essex. My father who worked for the council did " firewatching" at the local fire station, and would sometimes have to sleep there overnight. Sometimes on a saturday afternoon I would drive a tractor to a field for haymaking with aa couple of German POWs on the trailor. They were based ar Colesden and wore POW uniform. (brown shirt with a large yellow circle, back and front). I remember a Pill box on the Blunham side of Barford bridge. I remember a tented army camp in a field up green End, Gt. Barford in 1938. The soldiers practiced using searchlights. It was very wet and muddy and some of the soldiers would come to our house to wash and share in hot water.

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