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I was born in South East London, a place called the Elephant and Castle. The place was near the docks. The Germans were after the docks. That part of London was blitzed. I never did much schooling because of the air raids. We were sleeping down the tube station at the time. We had bunks on the station and some people were sleeping on floors. We also had a canteen. I was evacuated down to Devon. After a couple of years I came back to London as I missed it. The bombs were incendury bombs. I remember looking up to the sky and seeing dog fighting between the English and the Germans. I was a child and I thought that they were playing, I never knew it was serious.

I remember the doodle bugs coming over London, they were flying bombs. When they stopped you had to duck. After the flying bombs came the V2's. They were rockets. You couldn't see them but you could hear them coming over. My father was an Air Raid Warden. One day me and my cousin were playing on the bombsite and we saw flashing lights. We went to tell my father about these lights. When my father went to the building he found that it was a German spy signalling. They caught him and took him away.

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