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During the war my mother, Iris Harrison, was listening to the radio. They carried messages informing people about who was 'safe and well' and where they came from. When she heard the news one day coming from Arnheim she decided to write to the families of American servicemen and women telling them that their loved ones were safe. She became pen-pals with some of them, and was invited to visit after the War. Our family keep in contact to this day. An American newspaper, the Brighton Park Life, published a report about her act of kindness.

While we were growing up we heard stories about the way Ipswich was touched by the war. There was a lot of bombing around the airport and Crane's, and Holcombe Road was badly hit. There was still a bomb crater in Holywells Park when I was a child, and my sister took me to see it. My father converted his Anderson Shelter into a garden shed.

Jean Jackaman - reproduced with premission by Ipswich Museum.

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