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I was 18 in 1944 and was sent to the war office at Clapham Common. I had to go to the city of London, that was one of my first jobs and the building that I entered had a flying bomb direct hit and I was the only one brought out alive. So it was quite an eventful first day at work, but that was my only war experience.

When my husband was on the Royal Yugoslav ship at the end of the war the communist party cam aboard and said those who wish to go back to Yugoslavia could but those who did not wish were not allowed back because it was because it was a Royal Yugoslav ship

The captain of the ship opted not to go back. He managed to get across to America but they did not accept his papers as a captain, so he worked his way up took him seven years, right from bottom right up top to get all his papers back and once he had established that and got United States citizenship he went across to Yugoslavia and got his wife and took her back to America. He hadn鈥檛 seen his wife for 10 years.

Actually, on one occasion we went into his home port and he could see his house and he hadn鈥檛 seen his wife then for three or four years at least, he could see his house but the partisans wouldn鈥檛 let him ashore they only let the British officer and the British petty officer ashore and they wouldn鈥檛 let the captain ashore or in touch with his wife at all.

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