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As a child I remember seeing the red cross planes flying into Defford Aerodrome bringing back the...
Hans carved us lots of birds. Hans said he had a wife in Germany....
I remember hot bricks to warm the bed, Uncle Mac on the wireless, and I really enjoyed eating...
People were working there from all over the world- some from ther West Indies - some from the Channel...
In 1988 an article was front page news about my wife and I in a national newspaper, I have it here, a...
Mike had a air raid shelter in his garden, his house wasn't bombed during the war but houses close by...
My parents were determined that we'd stay together at our London home in Iverson Road, West Hampstead....
Greta Gibson was a friend of mine who drove an ambulance in London during the war... Winston Churchill...
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The dog used to sit and eat the coal... He would start panting and my grandma, who looked after me as my...
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I recall listening to the radio broadcast by the prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, telling us that we...
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