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Mary Geough's story was collected by People's War volunteer, Linda Graham of 大象传媒 NI:

I come from a place called Corbo, which lies between Fintona and Clogher and that is where I spent the Second World War. We were given ration books, which enabled us to get 2oz butter, tea, sugar etc each week. We were also issued with gas masks and used to put them on to pretend the soldiers were coming.

One day around 3 pm, my Granny and my Mother were at home in Corbo, and I was just coming home from school, when American army trucks appeared on our streets. The army set up a machine gun on the hill, to shoot down enemy planes. Everybody thought they were very cheeky as they didn鈥檛 ask if they could put it up there.

One day my mother and I were walking about four miles from the nearest town, when we I were chased by the Army! We had to hide in behind the hedges until they went away. We were very frightened and we did not know what they would have done, had they caught us.

They were in town for about three weeks before they went away and never came back.

I remember other girls in town liked the American soldiers, on account of being given silk stockings!

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