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When I was a school at Lancing, Sussex, we were coming out from school one day and the sirens went for an air raid and the planes were already more or less overhead. They went on to bomb Lancing Railway Works, where my father worked. I worried all night until I knew he was safe.
When they went over for Mulberry Harbour, they started bringing back prisoners. We had watched the army putting up various different sizes of tents in the 3 fields opposite where we lived and thought the army was about to move in. But they didn't, they bought these German prisoners there to debug them and then shower them and get them into prisoner's clothes. They were then moved to the next field where they lived for 2/3 months. On their uniforms they had a huge maroon diamond shape on the backs of their jackets and trousers. After a time they were allowed to come out of the camp and go into Worthing town. They were only allowed out in twos and they would walk around enjoying their bit of freedom. They would but cigarettes with special vouchers they were given but they could only use them in certain shops.

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