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guns. One incident late the other evening was questionable for a time.

While the French anti-aircraft were raising Cain over our heads amid the [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]]general bomb raid clatter, a white flare was dropped on our aerodrome. I was standing in the doorway of the barracks with Captain Hill, who has experienced many a raid in the vicinity of Dunkirk ^[["the city of dreadful nights."]] The Captain moved back saying , "There's a 'feeler'. The fellow who dropped that is a crack German bomber. He is trying to locate the lay of the land and when he does - look out for future raids."

No bomb descended just here however (it landed nearer town and got a few civilians) and later it turned out that the plane that actually dropped the [[strikethrough]] pills [[/strikethrough]] flare was a English bomber heading for the Rhine towns. This chap struck a fine mess when he got into the