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Keith James

I remember when I was 8, my father, mother, two sisters and myself were in an air raid shelter. My father was a special police officer and when the bombs came down on Cardiff around the ammunitions factory, we had one German parachute out into our back garden. My father and another chap took hold of this German along with his parachute and put him down in our Anderson shelter, leaving his parachute upstairs. We kept him there all night and fed him, and the following morning the police came and took him away. We've still got the parachute up in the roof of my own house! There was absolutely no bad feeling, and we chatted to the German all night, and even took his name and address before he went with the police. We used to have Christmas cards and birthday cards from him though, and he even sent me a wedding present when I got married. Unfortunately though, the uncle who had the address has since died, and although I've tried to get in touch through other people, I haven't been able to.

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