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I was born in 1938 and spent the whole of the war living in Braintree. I have many childhood memories of crouching under our kitchen table which served as an air raid shelter as doodle bugs went overhead on their way to London. I attended Chapel Hill Primary School and here it is food that I remember most, gathering up apples to take home, taking a jar to school to collect my cocoa and shouting out, "Have you got the gum chum?" to the American soldiers who came into Braintree town. When there was an raid all the children would go into the shelter and have a sing song.
I remember looking up into a sky full of planes and seeing a stream of tanks and lorries coming through our town from Colchester ready for D Day.
During the War my sister and I would sometimes get away from the town and stay with my aunt and her family out in Stowmarket in Suffolk.

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