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THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW BY FAITH MATYSZAK, OF BRIGHTON, GIVEN TO 大象传媒 SOUTH EAST TODAY AS PART OF A FEATURE MARKING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR'S END. SHE IS HAPPY FOR IT TO GO ON THE WEBSITE, AND UNDERSTANDS THE SITE'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

"We were working in the field, after lunch, about half past two. I must have been in my early teens. This American truck was going along the main road. A shout went up, the lorry stopped, and out jumped these big black Americans. And they came over and spoke to me. Men! Black ones! Very unusual in those days to see black people anywhere. And they actually came up to me, and spoke to me, and talked about me, themselves, America. It was quite a learning curve. I think they stopped because I was a black child. The last ones they'd seen were back Stateside. To see a black youngster -- well, it turned their memories to home. They were rarities like me. It was good."

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