- Contributed by
- threecountiesaction
- People in story:
- D Burrett
- Location of story:
- Luton
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4443743
- Contributed on:
- 13 July 2005
This story has been submitted to the People's War Site by Joan Smith for Three Counties Action on behalf of Mr D Burrett, a visitor to the Bedfordshire County Show on July 9th 2005. It has been added to the site with the author's permission and he fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was fourteen years old when the war began and I lived in Luton. I went to work at Commers Cars in Biscot Road in Luton and I joined the works fire brigade. On 10th November 1944, at ten minutes to ten in the morning there was an explosion. A rocket had fallen. The noise came after it fell, on the house next door to the canteen and the dispatch shop. It destroyed four houses, the front of the dispatch shop, houses opposite aand a doctor's surgery. There were at least four people killed and many injured. I was knocked out for a short time but I was very lucky.
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