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My brother ,Terry, and I were evacuated from the Plymouth area to Par in Cornwall. Before that event we spent about a year enduring nightly airraids on the nearby Plymouth dockyard.We used to wear tin hats and go outside,without mums consent of course, to see if any shrapnel would bounce off them- fortunately we never found out!!!!. We would find on the way to school, which --in our opinion should have been bombed-- lots of shrapnel and tail fins of incendary bombs, which we kept for many years.My father-we hardly ever saw, he was a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy and was away for about 3 years- .He served on HMS SPARTAN which was sunk-he was 10 hrs in the water- and later on HMS AURORA till his demob in 1946.

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