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I worked in an ammunition factory in Bridgend, South Wales during the war. My worst memories of the time was that we had to have Spitfires protecting the area while we worked because the Germans knew the factory was in that area. There were often dogfights overhead.

My job was to put the gunpowder in the shells and to make the detinaters.There were lots of bombs in the factory so it would have been huge if we were hit!
I would get up at 4am to get to work which was twenty-five miles away and was taken there by a specially laid on coach.
The Germans knew the factory was in the area but could not actually see it because the factories produced so much smoke we were hidden in a fog! The were three shifts but by far the worst to work was the 2-10 because this was when the Germans were most active in looking for us.

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