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THE HOLLINGTON V1 DOODLEBUG 16th July 1944. It was the afternoon of Sunday 16th July 1944. Our pet canary had been making a strange warning call all day. I was five and a half years old, and my ...

The victims of a notorious flying bomb attack during World War Two have been remembered 80 years after they lost their lives. Forty-two people died when the Nazis launched dozens of the V1 "Doodlebug" ...