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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Osian Elias of Age Concern Ceredigion on behalf of Kathleen Marshall and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 Terms and Conditions.

I was 2 years old when the war started and I lived in Cardiff, our estate was near the ammunitions factory, Bristol channel, railway line, docks, steelworks and an airport. Moaning Minny (the siren) for an air raid wailed out and when this happened I was carried down to the shelter at the bottom of the garden in a blanket. I used to ask what the lights in the sky were and was told they were fairy lights but of course it was flack from the ATAT guns. The bombs were disguised as bread baskets with bombs that looked like bread. We were evacuated to an auntie鈥檚 house in another part of Cardiff while we were there a bomb dropped at the end of the road and blew all the windows out. My papa was on the outside toilet and didn鈥檛 come out till the morning because he thought we鈥檇 all been blown up.

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