The first of the V1's

My brother was in the Medical corps in training and one day we met up and he wanted to go to see Hampton Court. When we were at Hampton Court over went the first of the V1’s. That wasn’t very pleasant!

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the BBC Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Herbert Lewis and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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• It seemed a bit of a silly thing to have to do
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• We weren’t told…

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