Mrs. Payne

I remember one night...it was when Coventry was bombed badly we had a lot of incendiaries on the farm and some of them went so deep they're still down there somewhere...even though they've built on all that ground they're still there. I think they got a bit mixed up with the Hinckley water tower - it was a great big tower - I think they thought they were at Coventry then. They weren't, so we got a lot of the flak as they called it.

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Harry Beazley

That night of the Coventry blitz - the moon - you could have read a newspaper. It started at seven o'clock at night and finished at seven in the morning. They used this water as a turning point, it was a landmark. We heard that after, that it was a landmark. It had been nice for two or three nights but this night the moon! It was like daylight, but you couldn't see 

nothing, they was right high up weren't they. It was one 'Zzzzzz', you could hear them, yes. Somehow you could tell as you listened - 'They're not ours'. It was a drumming noise - a distant noise, and then they seemed to be gone and the alert would go.

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Margery Milton

Coventry - I watched it from a railway bridge, you could see the glow in the distance and you could hear the bombs. Well, you could hear a rumble more that the explosions.

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Marie Phipps (b.1918)

And I remember D-Day morning. My husband got out of bed to have a look at what were going on - he could hear the noise all in the sky and that. He said, 'Oh come and look out here.' There were hundreds of planes, some of them looped onto each other - glider planes. I'll always remember my mum and how she cried 'cos our Bill had got to go. He was out in the Middle East and he'd never seen my eldest daughter for four years 'til he came home. Only her photo.