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- Essex Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Jim Down
- Location of story:听
- Thurrock
- Article ID:听
- A3903798
- Contributed on:听
- 16 April 2005
I lived in Thurrock for most of the war so I was in the front line.
My most vivid experience during the war occured in daytime.
I would be standing as a small boy in the back garden when there was a great noise of engines and suddenly the sky would be filled with aeroplanes. These were the planes of the eighth American Air Force on their day light mission.
To bring good luck we would count them out and also back.
26,000 airmen perished. God knows what was going through their minds as they passed overhead. Brave Men indeed.
Jim Down - April 2005
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