Planes and things

Two memories from 1940/41, sunny day playing in the garden when over the roof tops came a german bomber on his way back to Germany. Flying low for some reason he spotted me and started to fire a few cannon rounds. Thankfully all missed but a chimney pot on the neighbouring house had a hole pierced through it. If that pot has not been replaced it must still be there.
On another occasion I went with my father, who was a special constable, to the site where a small training plane had crashed landed. There we found the pilot setting up camp, on questioning he explained the plane had some form of mechanical fault causing him to crash land. On further questioning he assured my father he was British and friendly, however he was eventually taken away by some military police and we never heard if his story was true. These events happened between the villages of Blindley Heath and South Godstone in Surrey

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