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By 1942 house coal was virtually impossible to get. We had plenty of anthracite but anthracite will not burn in open fire so you had to have wood, it became by nature, and the Germans used to mark the trees and cut the trees down. You couldn鈥檛 do anything like that. The States used to cut some trees and it was done under control, I remember that. But as for coal, it was a very, very scarce commodity, house coal. It was gorse, and wood, and twigs, and it was a job of children. Children had to do their bit, and that was one of the bits we had to do, was find twigs.
RAYMOND TOSTEVIN

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