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by CSV Action Desk/BBC Radio Lincolnshire

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elinora dawson
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lincolnshire
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A4509371
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21 July 2005

I was putting up the blackouts one night when a lone enemy raider plane came, guns after him. We had to be quick and show no light as it was an enemy plane. A friend had a steel door which was somehow fastened to one of their windows and they used to put up this steel door right in front of the window for protection.

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