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My husband was a fireman - he served all through the Coventry Blitz. Our house was blitzed - I got down the stairs but couldn't get up for the debris. I went to the First Aid post where I helped withe casualties - I could deal with injuries and blood, but I couldn't bear anyone being sick. (I could cope with incendiaries - put one out with a sandbag). When our house went down the chap from the end house, who was also a fireman, went to work and told my husband "Your house has been blitzed" "Is the wife all right?" "Yes" "Oh well, I don't suppose it will matter then" - and he went back to sleep! Almost the last raid - in 1944 I think - the sirens went, so I carried my new baby son downstairs, and put him between the party wall and the back of the settee - it seemed the safest place. I crouched under the stairs. When the raid was over I went to his carrycot - he had slept right through it!

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