“. . . . we Were in the same predicament as the Berliners are in now. And yet, during the whole period of the London blitz, we had a sort ’of exhilaration. We were taking it. But we knew that we could take it. And, looking back, my clearest recollections are, strangely enough, more of the humorous 'side than the horror. I wonder, for instance, if the raids on Berlin can produce an incident like this: We were clearing up the debris of a badly bombed house after one of the raids, when a rescue worker heard a sound of tapping coming from inside an upturned bath-tub. When we’d cleared the wreckage from it, the side of the bath lifted a few inches, and a timorous voice enquired ‘Are there any ladies present?’ Yes, the occupant had been trapped having a bath when the bomb fell.”—MacDonald Hastings in a 8.8. C. broadcast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3
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