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... German planes which we saw was very odd . The real air war began for us in August 1940. On Sunday , August 18 , Virginia and I had just sat down to eat our lunch when there was a tremendous roar and we were just in time to see two planes ...
... German planes which we saw was very odd . The real air war began for us in August 1940. On Sunday , August 18 , Virginia and I had just sat down to eat our lunch when there was a tremendous roar and we were just in time to see two planes ...
Page 33
... 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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