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This is an interveiw with a World War Two veteran.

This woman lived in Manchester and was about 14 when World War 2 started.

Q. What did you do in the war?
A. I was evacuated from Manchester; I had a private evacuation which meant that I wasn鈥檛 with my school, as most people were.

Q. How were you affected during the war?
A. The war didn鈥檛 really affect me until 2-3 years after it had finished.

Q. Why was that?
A. Everything pretty much went on as normal. School was the same as was things like food and entertainment.

Q. Did you have rationed food?
A. Yes but the rations were quite flexible. We had fish and chicken most of the time. We knew the people who owned the local shop well. We could also swap rations with neighbours. We grew our own vegetables in little allotments.

Q. What if you were vegetarian?
A. You would have been fine. We had butter, bread, sugar.

Q. Did you know anyone who was killed in the war?
A. I had an American pen friend who went off to war, I never heard from him again, so I can only assume that he died.

Q. Did you find any influence from other countries in the war?
A. We had segregation because of American influence.

Q. Were you scared before the war as well as during the war?
A. Yes many people were imagining the worst before the war started.

Q. Did you ever get bombed during the war?
A. No but once when I was outside, a plane flew overhead; it went straight over me and dropped bombs in the field next door. (They did it so it would be a lighter journey back to Germany). It had come back from the bombing the docks at Liverpool.

Q. Did you loose contact with anyone during the war?
A. No I was lucky, but my American pen friend did probably die, as I said earlier.

Interviewed and written by
Anna and Nick

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