Geoffrey Julier - memories of living in London during the blitz

Told by subject (Geoff Julier): Age not given

My earliest memory was the Blitz and living in Hackney. When bombing started, I and the boy next door sat under the table. We would watch dog fights from the garden and remember one when a German plane was shot down and a loud cheer erupted from the street. The pilot came down by parachute onto the Hackney Marshes. The street took off to capture him, closely accompanied by the Military Police - to protect the pilot.

Living upstairs with us was a lady on her own. One night she was followed home by a drunken G.I. She hammered on our door and pushed the mans hand through the letter-box. My mother hit him with police truncheon she kept behind the door. A Military Policeman living nearby came and arrested him. A couple of days later my mother received a large bunch of flowers from the American Police.