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When war was declared I was courting my wife Marian and we decided to get married. My younger brother and myself both decided to join the Air Force, we both went to Cardington, we both had our medicals and unfortunately when I started my training, I had a lazy eye so I went into the Admin Section. My brother got shot down and ended up in Gracie Fields home in Capri. I continued on the admin side, I went to Weston Super Mare I went all over England, when I used to go home on leave our business was in between the stations. My wife took another business and she ran the business and it had a huge basement. When we used to get bombed we lived at home I had my mother who was a widow from the First World War and I can remember people being killed from that. There was the Black Cat Factory there and the underground. One night the bombing was very heavy, my mother could not walk very fast and there was no roof on this church, we ultimately got there. So then we went to Highgate to live, we took a flat and that got blitzed. There were a lot of things that went on during the war but I had a good time at Weston Super Mare. I went up and down the country all different places, I finished up at Northolt Aerodrome, I was stationed with Americans as far as I was concerned. I remember as a little boy my mother had two Austrian refugees, the Zeppelin came over and he had his head blown up. Nobdy wanted to take them at the time. When I look back it is hard to think you survived all that.

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