I remember the incident of the German bomber machine-gunning along the Ouse very well (Wartime memories, Letters, March 14).
I had just left York railway station where I had been to meet my grandmother, she came from Birmingham, in order to spend Christmas with my family.
As we left the station this tremendous roar went almost overhead, and I saw it in a flash, with all the noise you would expect.
What has always stayed with me was my gran’s remarks. She said: “Bloody Jerry has followed me here.”
I do not remember the siren going off. There was also a story that some soldiers had been killed near a boatyard. Whether there is any truth in this I don’t know.
Bob Burrows, Patterdale Drive, York.
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