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- GORDON HOTTON
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- 03 May 2005
THE GERMANS ARRIVE
The first I remember of the German troops was when I was cutting a hedge with my father along the Bas Courtils Road. It must have been June, a German bomber came over at a very low level but I don’t think it actually landed it was just a viewer, I remember this big black bomber with a mark on the front and a swastika on the back and it was very frightening. My father was taken ill with shock and he was in hospital for 6 weeks.
My uncle came to get his mother away from the airport area, and I’m sure we went that evening to Cliffdale, to Len’s place, as our grandmother was still there. When we went there it was supposed to be only for a couple of days but we never returned. The Germans took over our house.
GORDON HOTTON
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