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We lived quite close to the British Restaurant where all the meals were 1 shilling with a cup of tea. Great value! The food was pretty basic but really nice, we had things like rissoles, savaloys and later, when the Americans arrived, spam.

My mom and I were going there one day when we heard the doodle bugs coming over (They were the Mark 1's). When it was quite close to us the engine cut out. My mom and I panicked and dived behind a wall of a garden. The bomb went over us and disappeared behind the gas works. We were terrified and expected the worst. If the gas works went up then we didn't stand a chance. Well we waited and waited then it dawned on me that it must have landed in the big fishing lake which was behind the gas works.

Very relieved we decided to carry on and have our lunch. On the way home we went to the police station to report what we suspected. They sent down a diver and eventually they pulled the bomb out of the bottom where it had landed in the clay bottom.

It was dismantled and it was discovered that there was no firing pin inside. It had been sabotaged! Eventually it was discovered that the bomb had been put together in a place called Pienermont in Germany where all the workers were Jewish prisoners. They had sabotaged many bombs and saved thousands of lives.

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