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At Radnor Grove Farm, where our friends lived and with whom we spend much of the school holidays, there was an old disused swimming pool which had been built and used by the Territorial Army at their training camps in Somerford Park before (I think) the 1st World War. One school holiday, a group from the American Army stationed in Congleton came to practise operating their Bulldozers and levelled off the ground and filled in the swimming pool to give the farmer more pasture land. We had a great time as the Yanks gave us rides in the jeeps and trucks as well as supplying us with chewing gum, candy and chocolate. We assumed that they went off to France shortly after this and, I suppose that they used the bulldozers to fill in craters and clear runways etc.

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