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I remember my teacher thinking she鈥檇 lost her son to the japs. She started giving his toys away as prizes. One day at the end of the war someone came into the classroom and called her away. We were told they had found her son alive.

I also remember seeing a flying bomb chugging away down the bottom of Highgate. Don鈥檛 know where it ended up.

I was at Wakefield, I鈥檇 gone to my Grandmothers. Aloud bang woke us up. We were told to go back to sleep. The next day we went searching to find out what had happened and the next street had been bombed out.

I lived at Highgate during the war. I saw a plane caught up in the searchlights. It looked like a bit of silver paper.

My brother was in the RAF. I remember running up to meet him as he came home one day. He worked in the mines like my dad so really he shouldn鈥檛 have been called up. He kept saying this and one day while they were sailing to South Africa they had a roll call and his name wasn鈥檛 called out. The officer said he shouldn鈥檛 have been there and when they dock at Durban they said he could go back on the ship but he elected to stay as he didn鈥檛 fancy going back through the submarines and things. The ship was sunk whilst returning home.

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