S01 - E27: Doodle Bug Alley
Hitler was deploying new terror weapons by the time Eric was sent home from hospital to a part of London known as Doodle Bug Alley. The V1 Flying Bomb and V2 Rocket were precursors to the cruise missile and Saturn V rocket to the moon, respectively. Adolf Hitler was again trying to kill him.
S01 - E26: The Wooden Box
After returning home from hospital, Eric tried to find out more about the bombing of Sandhurst Road School and the death of his sister, Kitty. His parents reluctance to talk demonstrates how traumatised they had been by the events. Then one day Eric's mother called him upstairs, brought a wooden box out of the wardrobe, unlocked it and went through the contents with him.
S01 - E25: Home from Hospital
After 18 months in hospital, an unfamiliar woman and small boy arrived to take Eric home. He was back with his family. Soon he and his brother, Eddie, were tracking Hitler's latest weapon, the V1 Flying Bomb, passing overhead, as they sat on the roof of their Anderson Shelter in Doodle Bug Alley.
S01 - E24: The Three Letters
The bombing of Sandhurst Road School not only killed Eric's sister, Kitty, it led to his mother having a breakdown and his brother going into care, while he spent 18 months in various hospitals, adjusting to living with his injuries. His father later told him of returning from work one day to find three letters in their empty home, which encapsulated what they faced at that time.
S01 - E23: Life in Hospital
After being evacuated for three years at the beginning of the Second World War, Eric had just four months at home before being seriously injured in the Sandhurst Road School bombing. His life in hospital then began.
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