Gotha Bomber
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Gotha Bomber
Did you ever hear of a Gotha Bomber?
Well the Germans had a, it was a large
plane probably as big as a Lancaster with
four engines and it flew about 75 miles
an hour and about 500 to 1000 feet up and
on bright moonlight nights it would come
over and when the troops,
they knew where all the troops were
coming out on rest and their spies and
one thing or another and they'd drop
bombs on these; harassment of the rest
camps and I think everybody that served
in France that went out on, you know was
on a line and then came out for rest and
everything got to know that bomber and
they hated their guts because it was,
where I was, this Houdain place,
we had a search light there and a
machine gun, not us, the Royal Engineers
had it mounted on a tripod where they
could get it in and get up there and
then they get the search light on the
plane and then they would have
something to fire with, you see.
This plane came over and we had the
search light and they got the search
light on and this machine gun got firing and
you could see they had one huge great
big bomb and it probably weighed 500 lbs,
that bomb, and you could see the bomb let go.
The bomb was a dud, I don't know where
it went, thank God for that!
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