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My Nan and Grandad moved down from Scotland during the Coventry Blitz... Whilst he was away my Nan wanted...
After 1940 we had an arrangement with Hitler, and came home from Evacuation for the school holidays. My...
The Doodlebugs bomb used to come over at the time... I saw an Anti-Aircraft gun we called 鈥楤ig...
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My father, James Albert "Ben" Still, was a docker in the London Docks, and on certain nights he had...
The next day I saw soldiers digging people out " Its just like pork pie' he said 'Its all...
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No air raid warning was sounded the wireless was playing "i'll walk beside you" which in...
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