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I was an Air Raid Warden in Arnold, a suburb of Nottingham, from early 1939. I remember training in gas warfare and going through a gas chamber with tear gas, first with a gas mask and then without. It was a cold evening and we all had coats on. When we got in the bus to go home, it was warm and all of us started to cry as the tear gas was in our clothes!
One evening when on duty, someone informed the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) that something strange had been seen over the fields behind the Post. You will never believe this, but another lady and myself (I was only 20 years old) were sent to investigate. The fields were full of cows and the night was pitch black. We only had very small torches. The result was that we fell over the cows! I don't know who was more startled, the cows or us. Needless to say there was nothing sinister to be found at all.

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