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Smitten teen not only one to lose her head.
In: Daily Mail, 2022-03-15, S. 54-54
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ON THE morning following the devastating Blitz on Coventry on November 14, 1940, there was great anxiety in my grandmother's household. With her teenage daughter, my Aunt Marie, she had returned from the air raid shelter to check on their house. Marie had come in from the back garden after looking for damage on the roof. 'Come and see what I've found in the garden,' she yelled. On the rear lawn was a deep, dark hole about 12 in across. They realised they were possibly in possession of an unexploded bomb — or UXB. Marie was sent dashing off to the nearest ARP (Air Raid Precautions) post to report the disturbing news. Before too long, a bomb disposal unit arrived to inspect the hole. Men and digging equipment were assembled in the back garden and instructions given to the occupants to stay indoors away from windows. The officer used a set of long, thin metal tubes screwed together to probe gently into the hole until contact was made with a solid object deep under the lawn. He conferred with his second-in-command, who agreed with him that they had an UXB on their hands. The men stripped off their shirts despite it being a chilly morning and began digging. All this furious activity had its effect on our impressionable teenage Marie. The sight of glistening, naked-chested men in the garden was too much to resist! Defying orders, she crept to the edge of the deepening and widening hole and threw small pellets of dug-up clay at the workers. They gave her big grins and carried on working. Suddenly they struck something hard and work stopped. The boss was called to what was a big crater. With a hand brush, he carefully cleared away the soil and then gave a cry of shock and horror when he saw what lay exposed — a hideous, leering human head! The UXB was a huge stone gargoyle that had been blasted off the council chamber nearly a mile away. John Langley, Newport, Isle of Wight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Smitten teen not only one to lose her head.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | PETER, BOROUGH |
Zeitschrift: | Daily Mail, 2022-03-15, S. 54-54 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | Zeitungsartikel |
ISSN: | 0307-7578 (print) |
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