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Life Stories and Personal Memories => Personal Memories => Topic started by: castle261 on January 21, 2020, 02:02:36 PM

Title: Seven of Them
Post by: castle261 on January 21, 2020, 02:02:36 PM
My story from the old khf site.


While cycling near Tonbridge in 1944/5, I heard & saw seven of them, going towards London.
I stopped cycling to look at them in the sky, then I realised, one was heading straight for me, suddenly the engine stopped, I jumped off the bike, & crashed down on the side grass.
It landed a quarter of a mile, in front of me & exploded. These were some of the first wave of
Flying Bombs. I found out later there were seven sites in France, they came from.
I did not get to Tonbridge that day, I turned round and cycled home.


This could have been a test run, as I never saw any more, on my way home.

Title: Re: Seven of Them
Post by: John Walker on January 21, 2020, 11:17:44 PM
Wow!  An amazing story Castle262