A narrow escape

This is only a small incident during my chidhood, but it remains in my memory. I was going home from school fairly early on in the war.The school in question was Fulbridge Road Junior School. I always walked along a "cut" alongside a recreation field. This particular day, my friend asked me to go to her house in a Close halfway up the Cut. I had not been there before but I said "yes". Just as we arrived at her house, we heard a rat-a-tat tat sound and an aircraft noise.We rushed out into her garden and saw a German plane flying along the cut, firing his machine-gun. If I had not gone to Sheila's house, I would have been in the path of that salvo! Somebody was looking after me that day! In an area where not a great deal of incident happened, it was probably unique.Something I shall never forget.

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