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I was evacuated to Crownhill, Plymouth from Camels Head and the American forces lived in Blumber Barracks, Crownhill.

I was running across a path, with a young lady in front of me, and my sisters behind. This was in 1944 when I was 13 yrs old.
The young lady in front of me stepped on a phosphorous bomb. I was so close to her that my trousers were burnt with the phosphorous. She had a burn to her heel. I ended up in Freedom Fields Hospital for two days observation. Luckily I wasn’t burnt.

I was once in an air raid shelter, at Camels Head, every night for two years from 1940 — 1942. It was an Anderson shelter in our garden, my mother dug it out herself as my father was away in the Royal Navy.
My mother had to try and dry all our clothes each day as the condensation in the shelter made everything wet each night — and we only had one coal fire.

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