The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939-1969 |
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... German planes and many of them drop- ping bombs or fighting British planes , except in this incident I never saw or had real evidence of a German plane firing bullets at people or buildings on the ground , but very early in the war I ...
... German planes and many of them drop- ping bombs or fighting British planes , except in this incident I never saw or had real evidence of a German plane firing bullets at people or buildings on the ground , but very early in the war I ...
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... German plane , and I saw it happen . I was riding on the Ringmer road and Mary was riding about two hundred yards ahead of me . Suddenly a German plane swooped down , flew just above our heads along the line of the road , and fired a ...
... German plane , and I saw it happen . I was riding on the Ringmer road and Mary was riding about two hundred yards ahead of me . Suddenly a German plane swooped down , flew just above our heads along the line of the road , and fired a ...
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... German pilot was a mere boy ; he was taking mail in an antediluvian plane from France to the Germans in the Channel Islands . Losing his way , he had mistaken Sussex for Jersey . Some of the bullets hit his plane , but he himself was ...
... German pilot was a mere boy ; he was taking mail in an antediluvian plane from France to the Germans in the Channel Islands . Losing his way , he had mistaken Sussex for Jersey . Some of the bullets hit his plane , but he himself was ...
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