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Submitted by Alex Crawford on behalf of Judy Kinerman:

I was six when the war finished. My father was in the army and he was here in Trafalgar Square with me on VE Day. I was in Conningsby, near Grimby, Lincolshire. The bomber pilot, Douglas Badar and all of his crew, that went off in the war, left from the aerodrome just down the road from where I was living in Lincolshire.

I can remember the ration book and rationing. I can also remember swinging on my garden gate in the front garden, watching the lorries of the soldiers go by, and they threw me chocolate. They were American. I only wish I'd been a bit older!

My uncles were in the Grimsby docks and all the ships went to Dunkirk to bring the soldiers back. Well, two of my uncles did that. Now, it's a ghost town. There's not a lot of people there now, or businesses. But they did their bit.

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