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mêlée of German planes and allied archies. When he was challenged by  the searchlight it was lucky he fired the flare quickly, otherwise he might have been peppered with shrapnel.

The shrapnel and machine gun bullets land all about the place when a raid is on. I picked up several ugly strips of steel that were counterparts of the one that came near getting me (one piece two feet in front of the seat the other two feet behind my shoulder) and therefore it is small wonder that the authorities counsel the inhabitants of a bombed environ to take shelter. Else they may be killed by their own side.