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- gmractiondesk
- People in story:听
- Arthur Web
- Location of story:听
- Trafford, Manchester
- Article ID:听
- A4228959
- Contributed on:听
- 21 June 2005
'This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Arthur Web, and has been added to the site with his permission. The Author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.'
I worked at ford Airo factory at Davyhulme where the Trafford Centre is now. I was a working engineer. There were 22,000 people making Merlin Spitefire engines for Rolls Royce.
I was engineering in Coventry making Hercules engines for the bomber planes. I was a night worker and lived north of Coventry and worked south of Coventry. I had to go through the city centre to work.
I was on a motor bike travelling through London when we got an air raid. I went down an air raid shelter for the night and in the morning at 6.30pm I heard one plane coming over and a bomb was dropped. My friend was killed out right and I was shot and I am still suffering from the effects now at the age of 91yrs.
After that I went back and stayed with my mother. I got married in 1944 and had two children.
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