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- cornwallcsv
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- George Male
- Location of story:听
- Plymouth
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A5095028
- Contributed on:听
- 15 August 2005
George Male鈥檚 Story Part 2 of 3
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During the blitzes we had to take any patients out of the wooden huts to the decontamination building. We then had to put up the fire hydrants to get the fire extinguishers ready. There were 4 points to do them. I ran the operating theatre and had rabbits hidden in the cupboard. Rabbits were anything you couldn鈥檛 take ashore. My precious rabbits were tobacco, a new shirt and handkerchiefs and they were very special to me. I decided we鈥檇 put the first hydrant outside the theatre to protect my rabbits. Two sick berth attendants and I lifted an 18 inch man-hole cover, in the blitz in the dark on our hands and knees fishing to fit a hydrant. A plane went over dropping a stick of bombs. We all dived our heads down the man hole and our helmets jammed. When we got out it was to find the sick quarters were badly damaged. We managed to get through to the surgical wards. The Bomb had dropped at the other Hydrant which we should have placed first, it saved our lives deciding to protect my rabbits. I鈥檓 too old to go to jail now.
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