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During the second world war friends and I aged six, used to wag off school and go up onto the railway embankment at Clapham Junction, and wait for the Troop trains to pass through. As each train slowed down the Troops would throw out American dimes and gum, plus their food rations. All the Troops did this. one day this train with Americans on board did the usual and threw out again coins food and gum, but this time they dropped down to us these white balloons. We gethered them up and ran back home, one friend Micky was outside his house when his mother came home from shopping and saw what he had in his hand and clipped him round the ear then dragged him indoors. She told our parents, so we all got a clout.(for what) The balloons were blown up Durex. John C.

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