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The Bombing Of Willowbank - Part 2

Recorded 9 years ago
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Kathlyn was born in 1931 and here she describes a wartime memory when an unexploded bomb landed in Henrietta Street, Wick, around 1942. Kathlyn describes how the windows were smashed in the houses in Willowbank. She also describes her horror when inches of soot landed on their food.

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Kathlyn HarperBorn in 1930
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