IT WAS October 5, 1944 when an horrific shooting massacre happened in a Kingsclere pub, resulting in three people being murdered. Seventy-six years after the gruesome triple murder happened, the Gazette looks back at that fateful night, with information from Kingsclere Heritage Association, researched by a relative of someone who was there. Hushed up by the allied forces for fear it could affect relations with the Americans and be a blow to the morale of civilians, details of the massacre were almost lost to history. And with conflicting information given in accounts about what happened, the true story may never be known.