How I Got My Interest in the V2 Bomb

One of the V2 bombs landed very close to where my great-grandmother actually worked. She was a kitchen hand in a cafe next to London's main meat market, Smithfield Market. There were 110 deaths, many of them women and children just regular shoppers waiting. My family ever talked about this, and I'm sure my great grandmother was there, probably about 60, 70 yards beyond the blast zone. So not injured. But it was definitely something that came very, very close to changing my family history.