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- Age Concern Salford
- People in story:Ìý
- Mrs Ada Smith
- Location of story:Ìý
- Manchester
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A7942836
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 21 December 2005
My lasting Memory of World War II is…one evening my father went outside and looked towards Manchester. He saw the sky red with flames and smoke — got eight of us quickly into a four-man shelter in our back yard. When a land mine landed on Westwood Estate, we fell in a heap on top of each other on the floor from the vibrations.
My Brother, John, was killed in an air raid aged 24 years. He was a prisoner sent to work in Poland — recovering from appendicitis at the time and was not able to get away from the area. He was in the Royal Artillery.
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