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The Home Guard was formed and manned by those who had not been taken into the army due to an essential work or those who were deemed unfit. As a young lad, I had an accident at work, which left me two fingers short and consequently unable to hold a gun properly, so I wasn鈥檛 regarded as fit to fight for the forces.

Things settled down and life and some normality returned at home, apart from working extra hours.

Regards rationing, we had never had a lot, so rationing didn鈥檛 affect us as much as it might have other people.

We lived 20 miles from London, so the reflections of the fires from bombs dropped in London could be seen in the sky at night.

A few bombs were dropped round about; I remember a house at the end of our street being bombed and the occupants were killed.

Another I particularly remember was on a parachute that failed to open: It made a swishing sound as it fell to the earth. Everyone around about went to look at the huge crater it left in the ground, luckily it fell on open ground and no one was hurt.

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