Living in Kent during the war.
I was seven years old when war started in 1939 and lived in Cranbrook and Tonbridge during the war. Like thousands of other school boys of that era we watched the air battles, the battered B17's returning from raids over France and the Doodle Bugs snarling overhead.
If anyone is interested I am happy to forward by email to you an article that I wrote a few years ago based on those experiences. It is called "A Messerschmitt and a Blackbird on a Tree". An unusual title, the answer to which is in the last line of the article. About 8000 words. The article is just gathering dust on my hard drive, so anyone is welcome to read it.