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Barrage Balloon

by CSV Action Desk Leicester

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CSV Action Desk Leicester
People in story: 
David Chard
Location of story: 
Thurmaston
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A4346309
Contributed on: 
04 July 2005

Around February 1940, I remember seeing a barrage balloon overhead that had broken from its moorings. It was caught in the wind, heading from South to North.

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