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I had gone to the pictures to see a Charlie Chan film and once the film was over the most important thing a kid had to do was get out of the cinema before the National Anthem started to play. Otherwise you would have to stand there wait for it to end. So I dashed out into the street as quickly as I could!

All of a sudden I heard a big thud and there in the road was a huge bale of silver paper.

You see during the war, the Germans used to try and fool the search lights by dropping this silver paper and it then opened and flooded the sky with reams of silver paper thus confused the search lights. With the lights unable to pick out the plane from the paper, the planes used to be protected.

So there was this huge load of silver paper in the middle of the road. The police came and tried to move it but it was far to heavy. They had to get a bulldozer to come and push it to the end of the road where the police intended to break it down and take it away. Before they had the chance to do this, us kids started to do their job for them! That Christmas we had some lovely silver decorations. They lasted for years as well!

This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jacci Phillips of the CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Hereford and Worcester on behalf of Albert George Smith and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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