Diary of Phyllis Bethel of Topsham Devon

An account of her travels with her husband and her daughter Marion from Wiesbaden in Germany and the Second World war in Topsham Devon as written in her diaries between 1929 and 1953.

9th May 1941

Sirens again at eleven thirty till dawn. At 1.30 bombs fell when the second lot crashed, Marion who had been asleep sat up and said "Whatever is the matter is it wild cats?" Recently a farmer saw a German bomber crash and parachutists leave the plane. He and some others set off to hunt them. They arrested a an who turned out to be a firewatcher who was himself searching for the Germans. Just as they had all sorted themselves out a man walked up to them and said "I come to bomb. I finish now" and he was one of the Germans!

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