French version here
This happened on the occasion of a Daylight Raid by a single
German plane, and as I made my way across the road towards
the Warden's Post I heard the rattle of machine gun fire and
saw across the roofs of houses a little distant an enemy
aircraft machine gunning the Siddeley Aircraft Engine Factory.
I must now add to this my late Husband's
description of what occurred inside the Siddeley Test House
that day. His job then was to
report on the engines of crashed aircraft, and at that precise
moment he was running an engine on the Test Bed
(ear plugs in ears, of course, so nothing
could be heard above the engine noise -
communication with others being by signs and
'mouthing' words), when suddenly he saw a line of holes
appearing in the wall! He nudged the foreman in charge, and
mouthed "what's that?", pointing to the wall - The immediate
answer was "Good God! An Air Raid!" and
throwing off all switches they 'legged it' to the shelter!
Incidentally, I had been married to him for years, and the War nearly forgotten, before he told me this amusing tale.
