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You never wasted a thing during the War. It was a case of 'waste not, want
not'. There was certainly not a lot of meat around. If you had a joint of
meat on Saturday it had to last four days - in stews and soups. I lived near
the Racecourse in Ipswich. My husband, Ted, was working at the Cranes
factory, working from eight at night until eight in the morning. He also had
to do ARP training as a warden. His Cranes work was a reserved occupation
but it wasn't a very safe place to be as it was a target for enemy bombers.
We had an air raid shelter in the garden.

I remember the Doodlebugs (pilotless flying bombs). I heard one just
overhead when the engines cut. It was making for Cranes. The Doodlebugs were
terrifying.

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