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Arthur Wright: Lights Out
The airplanes, they used to come over. They used to fly toward Dover Air Force Base which is north of us right now. They would come over at nighttime, and it would be a lot. It would seem like it was a thousand. It probably wasn’t a thousand but it would make so much noise. And we would have to turn our lights down — we didn’t have electricity, but we had a lamp – to make sure they didn’t see any lights and stuff like that. The airplanes were more scary than the thunder and the lighting because it was so loud. Yeah, yeah, we were scared because we knew about the war, and we thought they were going to come over and get us.
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