“It took everyone by surprise including the machine gunners and the local residents.”
''A friend of mine Eileen was a nurse and one afternoon we went to the afternoon matinee at the pictures. We came out at about 4 30 or a quarter to five. I looked up and I saw a black thing come out of a plane and drop. We saw a puff of smoke as it landed. I didn't know what it was but Eileen had been in the bombing raids and she recognised it. We both stood there on the steps of the Danilo, gawping at it.”