Lloyd T. Adamson, Brigham City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, October 20, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 132

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Loyd T. Adamson Octob r 20 2000 was a trolley up there that run right from London right out past Ridgewell where I was tation d. a show. WIN: LOYD: But, now we'd go into London and oh I loved to go and hear the music and go to While you were in London were there any attacks by either B-1 or B-2 ... ? Yes, both, both. Now that was--the one nice thing about leaving my field is so many of the old buzz bombs would come over. They would launch them from Holland, and they'd come right over my field heading for London. And we had air raid shelters. And if we heard one coming--and they were about the fasting thing in the air at that time--but if we heard one coming, we'd get up on the air raid shelter to watch because usually there would be a British fighter right after it. And as soon as he would get past our field he'd dump it. He'd either shoot it down or--most often he'd fly along side and tip his wing up, or take his wing and lift it-the buzz bomb wing up, and that would spill his gyros and he'd come right on in. One day one came over and we were on the air raid shelter to watch it. And they were right over my field and its engines cut out. And boy, I'll tell you, talk about scrambling-all of us trying to get in that air raid shelter before that thing ... We no more all got in than it went off. As soon as it hit the ground it would go, you know. And it hit-my field was right out in the farm country, you know. There was houses all over. It hit in-between two houses-this buzz bomb did-and there was a total of eight children that lived in the two houses. I don't know if there was three in one and five, or what the ratio was, but there was a total of eight children. It killed every child and every adult survived. Isn't that strange? WIN: Oh, that's really something. 30