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Found my Uncles Spotter book...1st pic is on the inside cover,the next two are the following pages explaining different types of wing and engine design...the last two are of German planes. There is so much info in there,not only on British/American/Commonwealth aircraft but...

A lot of the machine gunning was from rounds fired in the dogfights...they have to land somewhere...it must have been frightening to be walking down the road and all of a sudden bullets were pinging and ricocheting everwhere

After the war they started building Coldean,we moved to the Roundway...only eight houses were complete then...everywhere was a huge building site...kids delight...swings from the scaffolding and general kids mischief. Later that year they opened the Wild Park,Dad was due home from the Army...Mum...

Re my post on Dudley Rd...I lived at 42...we moved there from 37 Gordon Rd when the lady and baby who lived in 42 were killed in a raid in Caledonian Rd...my grandfather lived at 58,Dudley and my cousin at 25 Dudley...I have recently been back to speak to the resident of 42 Dudley,she was...

The Franklin Arms bomb run I think was primarily aimed at Preston Barracks...the trail of bombs came across the allotments,(Hollingbury was not built then)the second to last bomb landed in Dudley road just down the road from us..in the middle of the street, houses only sustained shrapnel...