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Home Front: Attacks Avril Watt was staying with her grandmother when Leith was bombed

Avril Watt was staying with her grandmother when Leith was bombed

But there was one time, I was at my grandmother's in Edinburgh. Do you know where Leith is? Big docks, just outside Edinburgh, where all the ships would come in and out with the troops and with food for us. And I was down there at my grandmother's when Leith was bombed. And as kids you thought this was absolutely wonderful, because all the searchlights would go up like that and they would cross, and you would see a German plane in the middle of that cross, lit up. Now, you'd hear all the guns and you'd see all the tracers going up to hit, and we thought this was absolutely wonderful because, as children, it was exciting. You didn't think somebody was going to get killed. It was big lights and guns and it was like fireworks.

 
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Last updated: 20-Dec-2006
Date created :25 Apr 2005