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During the war my dad worked on the railway that used to run from Hooton to West Kirby in Wirral. One day he saw an aeroplane crash into a field, about half a mile from where he was working. He ran to the crashed plane, which was an enemy plane, and seeing the pilot's arm hanging through the window he grabbed it to try to pull the man from the plane.

I was about eight or nine at the time and I was told that my dad rescued the pilot. The truth was far more gruesome so I didn't get told the details. It was over sixty years later, while talking to my elder sister, that I learned the truth. When my dad pulled the pilot's arm, the arm came away from the man as it had been severed when the plane crashed.

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