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25 June 2019
Marden received more than its fair share of doodlebugs during the war.
25 June 2019
Graham Elliott was just three when he was caught up in a devastating explosion in Carrington Road, Dartford, which claimed 10 lives.
25 June 2019
Harry Pierce and his family had a lucky escape when a doodlebug plunged into a nearby street.
25 June 2019
As a happily naive seven-year-old, Wouldham resident David Doye had no idea about the bleak purpose of a V1s.
25 June 2019
Malcolm Hodge was four when he saw a doodlebug which wrecked a street in Frindsbury.
25 June 2019
Helen Mill remembers having a ringside view of doodlebugs falling on London.
25 June 2019
"A doodlebug gave me one of my least finest moments," recalls Alan Bignell, of Woodleas, Barming.
25 June 2019
Pitch black nights, sunny days in the garden and a potty in the night shelter is what Alan Bye remembers of the Doodlebug summer.
25 June 2019
In 1944, at the age of six and not being an evacuee, Brian Goodhew got used to watching the doodlebugs coming over at all times of the day.
25 June 2019
Patrick Wicker showed no fear when the doodlebugs soared over the Medway Towns.
25 June 2019
When the doodlebug stopped overhead, little Joy Muggridge ran for her life.
25 June 2019
When a doodlebug hit the ground, it would blow into smithereens, all too often leaving a trail of destruction.
25 June 2019
Herne Bay resident June Mackenzie remembers having to take shelter beneath her desk during a maths exam when one of the bombers flew over Canterbury.
25 June 2019
Bernard Crowhurst, of Kirby Road, Stone, was nine during the doodlebug summer, and recalled watching flying bombs come over his childhood home.
25 June 2019
Pat Miles, of Pilots Place, Gravesend, recalled how her family had a near miss when the doodlebugs first hit Gravesend.
24 June 2019
For five-year-old Herbert Crack the Doodlebugs were more a source of excitement than terror.
24 June 2019
Hundreds of bombs fell on Kent during the Doodlebug Summer. Use our interactive map to find out where.
24 June 2019
Hundreds of bombs fell in Kent during the Doodlebug Summer. Use our interactive map to find out where they landed.
06 June 2019
A park which is now home to a hotel and spa was a secret testing ground for a deadly D-Day weapon during the Second World War.
15 January 2018
A teenager from Northampton arrested on suspicion of burgling homes in Kent has been remanded in custody.