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JOHN DUTHIE from HOLLAND OHIO. Posted 31 Oct 2003.
I remember the war quite well. I remember the day that the German plane was shot down and crashed on the icerink, that by the way was never completed.
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|  | Edward Thomson from Glamis Angus . Posted 7 Nov 2003.
As a schoolboy I lived in Edinburgh, but after the German raid on the City and the Clydebank Blitz I was sent to relatives in Mannofield.I remember the Ice Ring being burnt but I alsi remember the raid on the Reservoirs at the back of the Cricket Ground. The bombs whistled down but only one exploded! The next day my cousin and I watched as Royal Engineers pulled 2 uxb's from the next field using a couple of Clydesdales borrowed from a farm. A sequel to this after the raids on Torry and Hall Russel's Yard I was whisked back to Edinburgh where it was deemed to be safer!!
Some 20 years later I was on atraining course at London Airport with BOAC and shared a room with John Morrison from Balnagask Road. Coincidentally, he had been at the Music Hall in Union street the day the Ice Rink was hit.True, its a small World...
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| | JOHN DUTHIE from HOLLAND OHIO. Posted 27 Apr 2004.
WELL WELL ED. IT'S A SMALL WORLD. IT CERTAINLY WAS A DAY THAT IS NOT EASILY FORGOTTEN. WE USED TO GO AROUND PICKING UP BITS OF SHRAPNEL BULLETS OR WHATEVER WE COULD FIND ON THE STREETS. THAT PLANE CAME RIGHT OVER OUR HOUSE THAT DAY ON IT'S WAY TO CRASH INTO THE NEW ICERINK THAT WAS BEING BUILT. I COULD SEE THE PILOT QUITE WELL. POOR MAN. ANYWAY THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST, BUT THEY WERE EXITING DAYS. I LEFT ABERDEEN IN 1953 AND I NOW LIVE IN THE USA AND HAVE DONE SINCE 1957. I GO BACK TO ABERDEEN EVERY YEAR AND I USUALLY ENJOY BEING THERE. I SOMETIMES THINK THAT I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK AND LIVE THERE BUT IT'S PROBABLY TO LATE FOR ME TO DO THAT. I GUESS WE WERE BOTH IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME. IT'S FUNNY HOW WE SUDDENLY REMEMBER THINGS FROM THE PAST. HAVE A NICE DAY AS THEY SAY, AND KEEP WELL.
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| | Richard Hill Glass from Medina, NY USA. Posted 29 Oct 2004.
My Mum was an air raid warder in Aberdeen and was not on duty at the time that German plane was shot down. She and my grandmother were looking out of the upstairs window on Morningside Road when the plane went over the house and went into the ice rink in Anderson Drive. I had a ring as a child made from the scrap from that plane but now it is lost.
I left Scotland in November1952 with my parents. I have been "home" a number of times and I would like to go more often.
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| | Roy Gordon from Glasgow. Posted 3 Nov 2004.
I, too, remember the day that Hall Russell's was bombed. I was serving my apprenticeship with Hall & Co.and had gone home to Torry for lunch. Had I stayed in "Fittie" I would have been in Hall Russell's boiler shop, as all the apprentices went there to eat their "piece", and that is where the land mine fell and killed my pals.
Later, I joined the Royal Navy as a marine engineer but never forgot my friends who were killed.
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