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- Essex Action Desk
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- John Pavelin
- Location of story:听
- Barling
- Article ID:听
- A3904058
- Contributed on:听
- 16 April 2005
It was the 13 October 1944, at 7.20 am.
My grandfather kept a load of pigs and suddenly the V2 rockets exploded in the air and the war head crashed into the pigruns.
Three pregnant pigs died, and my grandfather was very upset. Normally at that time in the morning my grandfather would have been feeding the pigs. So he was quite shaken up. That morning my grandfather, William Pavelin, wasn't feeding the pigs because the pig food hadn't arrived at the farm. A miracle.
The crater landed about 400 yards from his house and broke all the windows. I was 12 years old at the time and picked up quite a few parts of it. I still had these parts until 2003. ( about 60 years ). In 2003, my brother and I took the parts to the museum in Germany - at Peenemunde and they are there to this day.
One of my memories is riding on a pig as if it was a horse, from the age of three.
April 2005
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