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J. Arthur Rank owned Denamen Studios and he allowed the American soldiers to be stationed there... Marlene...
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My father, 1st Lieutenant Allyn Sumner Norton, Sr., USAAF, was a pilot and bombardier flying B-17 Flying...
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To me Uncle Tommy will always be Big Chief Sitting Bull... Uncle Tommy was the Great Chief and our Ian and...
The wife was a remarkable woman, in addition to two children of her own-a teenage daughter and a son - she...
Another story is we went off my cousin and I to stay with one of my aunts friends at Codsall... We met...
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I was evacuated from Liverpool Street Station, London on 1st September 1939 with Buxton Street School to...
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Our Mum and we went down the village to live with our Granny and Grandad, and a couple of Aunties. We used...
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