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ON the 16th October 1939 during the first air raid over mainland Britain a German aircraft was shot down into the sea near my village. The village is Port Seton on the south shore of the Firth of Forth and I was a 13 year old boy attending the local school on the above date when I heard low flying aircraft along with machine gun fire over the school. It turned out to be spitfires chasing the German aircraft out over the sea. Later in the afternoon I heard that the German aircraft had been shot down into the sea a few miles off Port Seton and a local fishing boat had picked up the crew I ran down to the harbour in time to see the Germen airmen brought onto the pier one of the Germans had an injury to his face and was taken to the local doctors surgery. An army vehicle then arrived and the prisoners were transferred to the army base at Edinburgh Castle. The 16th October 1939 is a date I will never forget.

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