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We lived through the war. It was an experience that I will always remember. All the material for our clothes came from England so during the war our clothes were very precious. If it rained we would run around without our shirts and shoes on so as not to ruin our clothes. You had to be careful of your shoes as well as leather was hard to come by. Cattle were sent live to England so they had meat and leather which meant we missed out. So clothes would be handed from family to family as you grew out of things.
In the town the main industries were coconut oil and tin mining. Boys would buy a newspaper and would swap ciggarettes or a piece of cake for a read of the paper - we were enterprising back then. Bartering was the way to get things and learn about things.
In the country all the farms were supplying food to the American bases so food wasn't in short supply except meat that was no longer slaughtered on the island.

One of my brothers joined the RAF during the war.

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