SIR: I read the item by Barry Shurlock about the plane crash at Fisher's Pond with great interest especially the item regarding the V1s, as I shall never forget when I was living (five years old) with my mother in our bungalow at 2 Weavills Road, Fair Oak, during World War Two.

On that night the air raid warning had sounded and we went to the shelter in our garden, sometime later we heard a V1 approaching and when the noise was right overhead the engine suddenly cut out.

There was a huge whoosh of air followed by a deafening explosion which demolished the house on the eastern corner of Weavills Road and Fair Oak Road and also the bungalow adjacent to it on Fair Oak Road.

When we emerged from our shelter we found the roof of our bungalow missing and the inside wrecked but fortunately there was no fire.

The bungalow on Fair Oak Road had received an almost direct hit with the occupants inside using an indoor shelter, one person unfortunately died but the others survived, as far as I know they were the only casualties.

The other V1 fortunately landed harmlessly in Stoke Park woods.

At that time my father was serving with the RAF in Italy and returned home in 1945.

Hoping you may find this of interest.

Barry Ansell,

Church Lane,

Colden Common