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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Nicki Riding for Three Counties Action on behalf of Mr Quince and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I was born in 1939 and I remember the attack on the Potton Petrol Dump, between Sandy and Potton. A string of bombs hit Sandy Recreation Ground. I was 3 or 4 years old and lived about 200 yards and remember the thud and the explosion, my mother grabbing me by the scruff of the neck and shoving me under the kitchen table.

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