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From 1941 to 1946 I attended the Torquay Girls Grammar School, which had been built a few years before on the outskirts of the town at Shiphay, a large white single storey building with a library on the first floor.Next door was Shiphay Manor farm.
In May/Jume 1944, we arrived at school one morning to find the fields full of American soldiers and their equipment.The nearest part of the school to the Americans was the grass tennis courts, and when we played tennis, the soldiers used to call to us and throw sweets over to the consternation of the P>E> teacher who would scream "Do not touch" to their and our delight. We used to deliberately knock the very precious tennis balls over the fence, which really upset her, as they would call "come and get them" This went on for about a week, then they disappeared overnight and we heard that the D Day landings had begun. Many of those young men died on the Normandy beaches. A few years ago we had a Reunion at the school, the "Americans field" was now part of the school, we all reminisced of the part in history that we were involved in.

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