You had to be there, mayomick. You ever go to school & come home again because a landmine had landed on it in the night? Happened to me in 1940 ~~ Garden Suburb School, London NW11. The King & Queen came to look at the damage that afternoon. Have a look at the WWii Songs thread. Songs like that helped.
I once mentioned to my late first wife, who came from the Forest of Dean, that I remembered having learnt about something she had just mentioned in an air raid shelter.
"Oh, yes," she said. "You will have had those silly practices too."
"What practices?" I said. "We had air raids."

~M~