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This story was submitted by Supervera on behalf of Gerry Gamma, and is added to the site with his permission.

When I was a baby we lived in Riverside, Cardiff....and when the bombing started we moved to relations in Tenby. My mother went to work at the Imperial Hotel there. For one week she had to stay there all the time - along with the rest of the staff. The reason was that the Supreme Allied Commanders, Generals Montgomery, Bradley and Eisenhower, and Winston Churchill had come to stay to plan the D-Day landings. Because the hotel was white, and might be a target for bombing at night, they put a caravan outside for Churchill to retreat to, should anything start. One evening Monty suggested to Eisenhower and Bradley "lets go for fish and chips"....so they went to Fecci's fish and chip shop just up the road in Frog Street and when they got in and sat down at a table covered in chip papers 14 year old Rosie Fecci - youngest daughter of the family - came along and told them to move themselves, because she had to clear the table ...and they did!

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