 Ishbel was only 13 at the time, and she lived in Dumbarton, Scotland. Dumbarton was a shipbuilding town and an air-sea rescue base. After the war began, it was a regular target for the Luftwaffe. The citizens had to take shelter wherever they could find it. We were given an Anderson shelter, which, you know, goes underground. But the water table where we lived was so high, we couldn't use it.