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- People in story:听
- JEAN REEVES
- Location of story:听
- COVENTRY
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6988963
- Contributed on:听
- 15 November 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Chloe Broadley on behalf of Jean Reeves and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was thirteen years old during the blitz : my brother was fourteen. One raid he was told to get under cover - sent to the school shelter by an Air Raid Warden. A land mine dropped on it - he was dead. That warden never forgave himself - he felt he had sent him to his death.
I used to get under the piano at home: when a warden turned us all out and sent us to the bakery in George Street, a German plane came over low - I saw the pilot grinning as he machine-gunned us - the parents put the children in the middle for cover.
I was in a shelter with neighbours and friends which got a direct hit one night when there was a lot of heavy bombing. When the All-Clear went someone got me out. I heard them say "The little girl's alive". I was the only survivor.
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