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This is Stan Barrons story of the war:
I was 11 months old in the war and I was living in Northumberland I was an only child and I went to an infant school, during the war it was a normal school with a 10 minute nap and maths and usual types of games. My house wasn鈥檛 bombed in the war and I didn鈥檛 need to be evacuated because my area wasn鈥檛 really a threatened area and I didn鈥檛 know any one who was bombed either.
I didn鈥檛 have a girlfriend during the war but I had lots of friends and I remember going to partys with them. I often went to the cinema with my mother and remember watching a film with planes flying and landing everywhere.
The fashion in that day was short trousers, grey shirts, sleeveless pullovers and small caps.
I remember being in an air raid shelter with my mother and father before he went off to fight I had a lot of care from my grandparents as well. In the shelter whenever I came out I always remember it being a starry night because the sky needed to be clear to make air- raids.
My mother died when I was five but just before she died I remember going to the market with her and an d buying stamps to stick on bombs that were going to be dropped on the Germans.
My father was in the artillery he told me lots of story鈥檚 about it, he was also in the famous battle the Monticassino in Italy
I remember around the area I lived in there was a German submarine destroyed on the harbour, when the men were rescued the German spat on the rescuers face, it was all over the news the next day. M y grandmother said I wouldn鈥檛 give a bloody spoon for the Germans that day my grandmother had the vicar round for tea and he said something about the Germans and my Grand mother can remember me repeating what she said and saying to the vicar I wouldn鈥檛 give a bloody spoon to the Germans.

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