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On the first raid I picked up my daughter and ran under that stairs cupboard. my aunt wouldn't join...
After the Americans left to fight in Europe, German and Italian prisoners of war were brought from a train...
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I was 7 or 8 years old, on Christmas day when in Oldham we had the first flying bomb dropped in Abbeyhills...
I was a little girl in Persia during the war. I remember Russian soldiers in their Jeeps in Tehran....
My father, Henry Easty, had been injured during the First World War, and had a job to keep the family...
There were also German films of course. I went in one of these German films but I couldn't understand a...
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This plane was dropping five things out of the plane, We thought it was sandbags but it was bombs... Later...
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My dad was called Henry and he had recieved a telegram telling him that he would be called up... We all sat...
The plane landed on Walker's, the jewellers, outside Victoria Station. The pilot parachuted out and...
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