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We played on Earlswood Common, Surrey during our school and war years. British and German planes often fought in the sky above us. We called it a dogfight. We played bows and arrows beneath them. We pretended to shoot them down.

We just had no fear in those days. Dad would come running across the Common to tell us to get in the Air Raid Shelters. He had served in Dunkirk. We thought he just had bad nerves.

We remember three houses being flattened at the far end of our grandmother鈥檚 street. Joyce was 14 then and on her way to work. Someone told her not to look. So she did. They were taking bodies out of the ruins.

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