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- shropshirelibraries
- People in story:Ìý
- Frank Tipton
- Location of story:Ìý
- Ludlow, Shropshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3293912
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 18 November 2004
We used to see the bombers later in the war flying over in drifts — going over to Europe. There were over 2000 US soldiers at Ludlow racecourse and they used to take the local children up in the training craft. Kids used to come from all over. We kids in Bromfield were a bit put out — the kids from Ludlow were heathens and we were a cut above because we had the Clives (of India fame) living in Bromfield.
The US soldiers appeared overnight. The officers asked around the village for women to wash their shirts and my mother took some in. But they disappeared overnight, leaving their shirts behind, off to the D-Day landings. Some time later an officer came to collect their shirts and told her that all those troops were killed off the Normandy coast. They’d been on a troop ship that was attacked and sunk.
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