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My father was in the army reserves in Efford. I remember my mother and me going down to the air-raid shelter in the garden. She used to come down backwards into the shelter, with all the policies in her hand. I was about 11, or 12, or 13.

I went to Laira Green School, and used to do a paper round on Mutley Plain when I was 14. I worked at the Co-op bakery when I left school and met my husband there. I was 21 when we got married. My husband was in the medical corps in Wales, he worked as a cook.

I remember my mother doing the washing for the American Forces. We had jeeps driving up to the house to collect and deliver it. I also remember the Germans in the Nissan huts in Blandford Road. Mrs Eddicoat used to go and do the cleaning for them.

My husband Dan and his family used to go out in lorries to Marsh Mills when the air-raids were on to escape the bombs.

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