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Summer Holidays

by armydonfred

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armydonfred
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samual knight.donald knight
Location of story:听
gays farmdagenham essex
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Civilian
Article ID:听
A3924597
Contributed on:听
20 April 2005

During the summer holidays from school,freinds and myself would go over the farm were my dad work..and we would help get the corn in,,we would help stack it..after it had been cut.this particular morning,we could hear earoplane engines.which would happen time to time as the spitfire would take off from hornchurch airfield...but they had a diffrent engine tone,one off the planes went a little high and they where german,frighters,,my dad throw me and some mates under the cart that they where loading the corn on..these fighters shot at us..then the houses.and went onto shooting romford gas works..

during the blists we had ach ach guns up the top off our road..and when they started firing at the enemy bombers,durring a air raid,the ground shook,so did the dugout..

one day my mum and me where coming home from the shops..we was between air raid shelters,when the sierens went..we could see a doodle bug coming towards the shops but at that moment a spitfire got his wing under it and tilted it away,and it grashed in the park.and save the shops..he was a brave pilot..

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Posted on: 23 April 2005 by armydonfred

On my way to school.about 8 years old.and this morning as we walked along to school,on the right was a builders yard..on the left was a big wall,,behind was a barkery..then out off the sun came these german fighters and they where shooting.at any thing.you could hear the pullets hitting the biulders yard,my mum push me down against the wall..about 400 yards away was the factory that made stirling machine guns,,that could have been there target,,some of the shop got hit that morning..about 4 weeks later..they got the machine gun factory,it was midafternoon..on my way home from school i stood there watching the firemen fighting the blaze..and iwas late home and my mum told me of,,but i said i have beenwatching the fire at the gun factory..

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