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Verneuil was bombed at 1:30. There was a train full of soldiers at the station. It is always so stupid to leave the trains sitting there like that. A bomb dropped on it: 30 dead and 100 wounded. I watched the bombs fall. I wasn’t afraid, I don’t know why. I just thought it was disgusting to attack such a small town. It’s funny a plane on a bombing raid looks a bit like a big bird. During the bombardment we prayed with the little boy from downstairs, who said: ‘The animals! The pigs! The bastards!’ He and Nicole were very frightened. The Krauts made a big racket. All three of us were breathless. Weird…

We can’t stay in Verneuil. All the shopkeepers have fled. As the RAF troops went past in convoy we asked if they could take us with them. But none of them could.

For dinner we have rotten hard-boiled eggs.