Re(4): The v1 Bomb

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Re(4): The v1 Bomb
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Posted on January 9, 2025 at 17:21:56 by Malcolm C. McDonald

What a tragic happening for our village, Tottington. The week before the council had removed the huge water tank which was opposite our home in St Anne's grounds, place there if the village was bombed to put the fires out.
The bomb must have woken me up but it was the ceiling falling in on me. The V1 had landed towards the bottom of Chapel Street and behind the houses. There was no panic we went downstairs, at the bottom the gas had exploded and it was burning. The blast had gone right through our home and had taken the back wall out. My uncle who was there for Christmas woke up on the back lawn as his bed was on rollers and when the floor was weakened the bed rolled out. Our neighbour who had recently born a baby and probably panicing had rushed out and had to go back to get her child. There was no bedroom there so she fell and broke her arm - someone had got the baby out. I was sitting on a settee in the front room and it was bloody cold. I could hear the shouting outside but never bothered to open the door. My uncle having woken up on the lawn came to get me and we sent to a relative on Bury Road. The soles of my feet were cut from the glass on the floor and I was as black as a N-Minstrel as the blast had blown the hot soot out of the chimneys. We lost everything - no clothes, no Xmas presents, no Xmas dinner. Still we survived as 6 of our neighbours didn't.
It is a crime that the local authority couldn't look after the Gardens. It should be looked after as a memory that war is nothing glorious. Maybe it would be better to move the centaph there?
Otherwise my family lost an uncle in North Africa when the plane he was being evakuated in was shot down by German fighters together with the general who was to be head of the 8th army on 7/8 1942, no it wasn't Montgomery. My Father was called up from the reserve to fight in Metz and then Dunkirk. This is the same for many families - the bombing of their homes and the loss of family members fighting on the front. They weren't video games or US movies but real people.

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Re(5): The v1 Bomb - By Colin Fletcher January 1, 2025 at 21:31:40
- Re(6): The v1 Bomb - By Malcolm C McDonald January 9, 2025 at 17:35:25

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