"Well I’ll tell you now about Inverness during the war. On many occasions when I was here,before I joined the RAF I could see the Germans planes flying over Inverness.

They weren’t intending bombing the city what they were intending on doing was trying to find out where the ships of the Royal Navy were hiding. The ships of the Royal Navy were all on the west coast.. The one attack which was carried out near Inverness was carried out at Foyers power station and I now have a piece of bomb which was dropped there, because of the Germans in June 1940, two men from Inverness were killed when this raid occurred and one stayed in Jamaica street and his name was Mr. Macdonald.

They did not hit the factory in Foyers but the pipes which carried the high pressure water down and that was the only raid which came near Inverness. It was quite intimidating seeing them flying over. We had no defences at all, in Inverness. We had no aircrafts, no fighter aircrafts and no guns. We had absolutely nothing so the Germans just flew over and it was quite frightening of course.

They flew very high and it was the first time we ever saw a condensation trail when they flew over Inverness. It was the first time we ever saw aircrafts flying at that altitude which was over 20,000 feet so that was the nice bit. The first high altitude flight we ever encountered was by German planes. "