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In 1940, we got evacuated to Leicester with my sister Sylvie. She’d ‘ve been two or something.

I remember being caught under a table with me mum and me sister. We heard the thing make a noise (the doodlebug) when it was going and it stopped. You knew that was it; someone was going to cop it. And someone did ‘cos the next day, part of Smeetham Road was gone, flattened. We didn’t get to the Anderson Shelter on time.

I was a bit scared, but one got used to it and took it in one’s stride.

This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by Helena Noifeld of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of Terry Brown with his permission and he fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

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