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I worked at Golden Manor, nr. Probus and during the war we had Italian POW's working on the farm. They came to work each day by lorry. Up the road was a camp of Americans getting ready for the D-day landings.

The Americans came up to the farm for eggs. One days the Italians were being lead out to go back to their camp - one of them called out "hey American" - it turned out that they were brothers. The older one had emigrated to America, the younger had stayed in Italy with his Mama. It was very moving as the whole conversation for those few minutes was "have you heard from Mama".

I used to ride a horse to work and had to have spepcial permission to travel on the roads. Nr. King Harry Ferry the road was blocked with vehicles for four days - I would go home for lunch and then back to the farm and the traffic hadn't moved.

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