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- Jack Harding
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- Birmingham
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- Civilian
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- A4888551
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- 09 August 2005
August 1940 was my 14th birthday so it was time for me to leave school and go back home to Birmingham. All the time that I was evacuated it had been, what was called a phoney war, nothing had really happened at all as far as we were concerned. All I can remember of the news programs on the Radio, was the R.A.F. dropping leaflets on Germany, which was a bit stupid considering all the facts. I can also remember listening to Tommy Handley in a program called "ITMA" (It's that man again) this was an extremely popular program which practically everyone listened to, and looked forward to (something like Coronation St. is today).
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