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THE GERMANS ARRIVE

A neighbour came rushing round, I think on the Sunday, to say ‘they’ve landed!’, that was the phrase, ‘They’ve landed!’. The Germans arrived by air, with those 3-engined Junkers 52s. As a child I thought they can’t be much good, they’re made of corrugated iron like we used to make the fowl house with! They came over in droves, quite close to our house, very low. You could see the dorsal gunner quite happily, the rivets and everything. I was worried they might drop bombs, but Dad said “No, they are only troop carriers, they won’t do any harm.�
MALCOLM WOODLAND

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