The Mystery Of The Heinkel

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Michael Isherwood, and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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I was eleven years old when the war started. Very early one morning, towards the end of September 1939, I was awakened by the noise of aircraft engines. I looked out to see a Heinkel 111 circling low over Southampton Docks. Nobody took the slightest notice, it did not drop any bombs and nobody shot at it. I never found out why.

Later on in the war, the gasworks was hit. Somehow, my mother managed to cook meals over the dining room fire or with a primus stove.

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