Granny and the bombers

Since my gran passed away a couple of years ago I often recall her telling me some of her story's to do with WWII. The one I remember the most is about an air-raid she experienced. She told me that they lived across the river form Glasgow and the docks and that they used to have alerts on a regular basis. One night she remembered a bad air-raid over the Clyde and that the German bombers were dropping parachute mines. The one thing that she said that stuck in my mind and my mother's (who was a little girl at the time) was that the Polish Airmen who were stationed nearby were stood out in the middle of this heavy air-raid shooting down the parachute mines as they fell. My gran would recall this memory with fondness, stating that these brave men who had lost so much, were prepared to risk loosing their lives for a little known town in Scotland. Gran always said that they saved their town that night, and if the mines had landed that Renfrew would have been blown to pieces. My Gran was such a wondefully loving granny to me and all my family and I just wanted to share this memory with others who may like to read it

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