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- Age Concern Salford
- People in story:Ìý
- Joan McFarlane
- Location of story:Ìý
- From Manchester
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:Ìý
- A7943240
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 21 December 2005
My lasting Memory of World War II is…I joined the ARP (Civil Defence) in 1940 (I said I was older than I was). Involved in the Blitz and found that ‘ignorance is bliss’ I saw things that at that young age I should never have seen. I have happier memories of the WLA.
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