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Michael was two when the war started and was eight yrs old when it ended. He lived in a village in Essex. Michael had quite a lot of memories. There was rationing of food and clothes. Michael's mum used to save things like sugar from the rations so they could make cakes for birthdays and Christmas. Once he got into trouble because he left his brand new raincoat on the promenade. Micheal didn't eat meat very much. He had his first banana at the end of the war, and his first ice-cream not until after the war.

In World War Two there was the black-out. That meant that you had to put dark blinds over the windows at night, so the German planes couldn't see light to attack or navigate by. Vehicles had to black out most of their headlamps, so there were just narrow slits of light to drive by and there were lots of accidents.

Michael didn't think of the war very much, but apart from old men there was only one Dad left in the street. He lived next door to Michael, and he didn't have to go to war like all the others, because he was a signal man on the railway. Some time after the war, the local paper published details of where the Germans planned to be in southeast England. Michael was very happy when the war was over

Thank you for all your help Michael.

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