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- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio
- People in story:Ìý
- Joyce Brewer
- Location of story:Ìý
- Hastings
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4391200
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 07 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Wendy Wood of Hastings Community Learning Centre, a volunteer from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio on behalf of Joyce Brewer and has been added to the site with his/her permission. Joyce Brewer fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
On this particular day in July 1944 I was delivering milk in Ore Village, when a doodlebug came overhead and all of a sudden the anti-aircraft guns opened fire and hit it. I was sure the doodlebug was heading for my house in Broomgrove Road and I jumped straight into my van and drove home, only to find that my house was safe but the doodlebug had fallen in Pine Avenue and killed a man. My first reaction was absolute relief when I knew my house and family were safe and secondly I realized that I had changed my route that morning and doing so had saved my life. I would have been in Pine Avenue delivering next door to the house where the doodlebug had fallen, instead of Fairlight Road. I felt an extremely lucky girl.
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