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My Great Uncle Bill鈥檚 first experience of the Second World War
was living in London during the blitz. Workers were expected to
report for air-raid duties. One of his duties was incendiary bomb
spotting. This was extremely dangerous because if they were not
collected in time they would soon burn through the roof and set
the building alight. One night he was on his way home walking
across Westminster bridge when a bomb blew up and knocked
him flat on his face and halfway across the bridge. Luckily an
air-raid warden was nearby and he took Uncle Bill to an air-raid
shelter where he was to stay the night. The following morning he
continued home only to find that a land-bomb had exploded in his
street destroying everything including his own flat.
At the age of nineteen Uncle Bill was conscripted into the R.A.F.
In 1941 after completing his military training he was posted abroad. It took over three months but at last they reached their destination,
India. He spent six years in India and finally returned in 1947 even
though the War ended in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped
in Japan. Home at last!

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