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THE FIRST AIR RAID ON PORTSMOUTH

by Bemerton Local History Society

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Bemerton Local History Society
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EDNA O`SHEA
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Portsmouth
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Civilian
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A3882297
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11 April 2005

After eight months of being evacuated to Salisbury I went home to Cosham; there hadn`t been any bombing and my brother hadn`t been very happy with his family.Soon afterwards, in early summer, we went for a picnic with our mother to Horndean. All of a sudden the attack began and the ackack guns began firing. It was very frightening because we felt very exposed. It wasn`t so much the bombs dropping but the shrapnel and machine gun fire which we feared. My mother told us to creep along close to the wall in the field and we got back safely. the shrapnel and machine gun fire which we feared

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