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Arthur - I was training in Wales with the Army in preparation for D-Day, but my friends were working in King's Garage, opposite the Whitehall cinema. They were not injured during the bombing because there was a lorry on its side with a steel body, that protected them when the glass roof came down above them.

Joan - I was 17 years old and working in Ashurst Wood Post Office. In the late afternoon, I took a phone call message to tell a lady in the village that her daughter was alive and had been taken to the Queen Victoria Hospital. I was a member of the British Red Cross, but not qualified enough to help on an occasion like this. In the evening, we went over to East Grinstead on the bus to the Radio Centre cinema. The film was constantly interrupted with messages on the screen asking if certain children were there. These children were still missing from the Whitehall Cinema bombing earlier.

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