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I was working in Majestic Garage in munitions in Bournemouth and I was on my way home at lunchtime. A plane came over and machine gunned and I had to jump in the bushes. I then walked up towards the Landsdowne Hotel where the Airforce was billeted. Some RAF men were on the balcony and some part of the hotel was destroyed. I was in a state of shock about it as we didn't have many attacks in Bournemouth.
I worked shifts and sometimes before I went on shift at 10.00pm we'd go to a hotel and meet with Canadian airmen. I preferred the Canadian's to the American's. We'd drink and dance with the airmen, when they left there were a few broken hearts. I met my husband during the war in a pub. He was in the Navy at Portsmouth. He was on the Aurora and H.M.S. Tenby - a mine sweeper.
I went to live in Lymington - I was billeted and the only way I could get home was by being a railway carriage cleaner and on my marriage certificate that's what it said I was. I have kept the letters my husband sent me from the War - at least 50 of them.

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