- Contributed by
- BBC Radio Norfolk Action Desk
- People in story:
- Michael Holmes
- Location of story:
- Various
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4111066
- Contributed on:
- 24 May 2005
This contribution to People’s War was received by the Action Desk at BBC Radio Norfolk and submitted to the website with the permission and on behalf of Mr Michael Holmes
1 Shot at -and only three years old
“I lived on Foster Road near Catton and mother was an A.R.P. I was three and playing outside when a German plane came over and shot at us because we were playing near the soldiers. I remember the bullets hitting the ground and a soldier pulling me down to the ground for safety.”
2.Uncle trying to get into the Shelter
“1942, the Norwich blitz. My uncle was a ‘tail end Charlie’ in the Lancaster bomber - a rear gunner. I remember him banging on the air raid shelter to get in the night of the blitz. I was only two.”
3 Trapped in the Submarine
“My dad was a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy he was trapped in his submarine on the bottom of a fiord for three days — he got out”
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