30th April 1941

Bombs and AA gunfire at airport, awakened Marion and myself at 12pm. As bombs continued falling and the place was lit up with red glow from incendiaries, I took all the bedclothes and hot water bottle into shelter and Marion and I lay down there. daddy was in the garden watching. At 2.00am all clear went so we slept the rest of the night in our own beds. We heard this morning they had been everywhere, Dawlish Torquay in fact just at our back door. Anthea came over to get her birthday present, a table and bench daddy had carpentered. USA consulate in Plymouth wrote all their records were destroyed on March 21st by fire, including Daddy's old passport with all his Belgian and French visas on it. Now they want number of new passport we got on March 3rd.

29th April 1941

Last night sirens went at 10.30pm and there was a non stop roar of planes heading for Plymouth. I thought Marion was asleep, she never said a word, but apparently lay awake listening to them going over our house until 11.30pm I lay awake until almost 2.00pm and still wave after wave were going over. We heard they attaked Plymouth again. At ten to five in the morning there was another alert, I awoke to hear the all clear at about 5.30am