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Nobody seems to remember the importance of the work done by the telephone exchange during the war. I was on the GPO switchboard in Coventry during the Blitz. Sometimes we had to practice our work wearing gas masks over our headphones, in case of a gas attack.

Whenever there was an alert from the Ministry of Defence, we had to drop everything and phone up local factories and hospitals, etc to warn them of an incoming air raid. We had to stay in the building until the all clear, when we then had to phone round to everyone again. It was a dangerous job, but we鈥檝e never really been acknowledged for what we did.

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