Second World War - Target Filton

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‘So I started work in April 1939, just before the war broke out. Now when the war did break out in September, we were all mobilised and I had to work seven days a week. Churchill had created the Ministry of Aircraft Production under Lord Beaverbrook and so we were working very hard to produce all the military aeroplanes, the Blenheims, the Beaufighters.’
‘On that day of the raid it was my turn to visit the technical college in town, so I was down there, and when the Germans came over we all went outside and looked up at them, seeing them flying across to Filton. When the bombers got there, they bombed the air-raid shelters located on Filton Hill, and the one next door to the one that I would have been in, received a direct hit and everyone was killed there, so I was lucky to have escaped that.'

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