- Contributed by
- HnWCSVActionDesk
- People in story:
- Ron Jennings, Minny Landon
- Location of story:
- Low Habberley, Nr Kidderminster
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A8875461
- Contributed on:
- 27 January 2006
I remember when the war started and our next door neighbour Minnie panicking about the blackout.
The first time we heard a siren we all raced into the downstairs passage with our gasmasks where we stood and waited and waited for ages and ages for something to happen. Eventually we all went back to bed and found out later that what we’d heard had been the all clear!
People used to say “It’ll be over by Christmas” and “Don’t worry the Germans have got wooden tanks.”
Of course it was all very naïve. In the spring of 1940, around May/June I remember my dad saying “we’re in trouble now” after the collapse of France just before Dunkirk .
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Sue Broome of the CSV Action Desk at 91ȱ Hereford and Worcester on behalf of Ron Jennings and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
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