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At the end of the war we were being taught skills to equip us for return to civvy street and were given lessons in cookery and crochet. We were photographed at the end of the course where we were taught how to make scones. It kept us occupied even though the war had ended. Our instructors had qualifications to teach the skills they taught in. My friend Ellie McStay reminded me of an incident from RAF Ballykelly days. One Friday we had been issued with new shoes and a Yank had given me a can of pineapple juice. As Friday was also pay day I suggested that Ellie and I should go to the Naffi and buy some cigarettes, then on to the bath house and sit on the edge of the bath with our new shoes soaking in the water to soften them and drink the Yank鈥檚 pineapple juice. That was the way you softened the leather and got the shoes into the shape of your feet. The Yanks would come and go at Ballykelly, we also had Canadian and Polish Air Force members. I seem to remember that the Yanks were Army as we used to meet them when they came to some of the dances.

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