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Mr. Broadley's home was bombed three times, and during the second raid he was injured in the head and...
My great uncle, who was with us at the time, hammered on the bathroom door and I was whisked down to the...
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Early one winter's evening a lone German bomber had dropped his bombs about a mile away over the fields...
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