At Chiswick County Grammar School in the summer term of 1944 the exams were conducted in the school air raid shelters so as not to be interrupted by the occasional V1s. The rest of us carried on in our normal classrooms. Fortunately most of the damage to the school happened in the summer holidays. The first V2 arrived just up the road, publicised as a gas main explosion, also in the holidays.
More Stoic in those day, or what?