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15 October 2014
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Action Desk, 大象传媒 Radio Suffolk
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Ann Bird
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Bury St Edmunds
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Civilian
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A4478303
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18 July 2005

I was young during the war. My mother took in evacuees, she would go to the station to meet them.
They were very different to us as they came from East London. My main recollection is that they didn't eat puddings - they had never had them.
When we went to school we took our gas masks on our backs. When there was an air raid we could only do spelling and mental arithmetic as we couldn't take our books.
When the Americans came they gave a big party for the children and gave us lots of sweets. I was shy and quite nervous of these big men who were very kind, but the sweets seemed strange to us.

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