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Mum's next-door neighbour had a son in the army... Nan's son was a red beret paratrooper and I...
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My sister who was four years older than me and I were playing in the garden and my mother and our next...
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Betty Grable, the blonde bombshell, had her legs insured for £50,000. I remember the sirens I remember...
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