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This contribution to WW2 People鈥檚 War was provided by the contributor at an Event at the RAF Neatishead Radar Defence Museum attended by the 大象传媒 Radio Norfolk Action Desk. It has been submitted to the website with the permission and on behalf John & Brenda Fulton.

We were both born in 1939, nine days apart. My father(John's) was in a reserved occupation in the mine's but he also was a Captain in the Home Guard. He use to take us down to the bottom of the street to teach us what to do when a Doodle Bug came over. He told us when the engine stopped then it was time to find shelter. As Sheffield was a steel manufacturing town the Germans use to attack it quite frequently. Every night we were put to bed under the kitchen table. On the days of heavy bombing we would use the shelter at the bottom of our street. Brenda use to have a Anderson shelter at the bottom of her garden. One day the Lady Mayor came to Brenda's school and all the nursery class were given a bar of Fry's peppermint creme no other members of the school were given a bar. When she got home from school she asked her mother what it was because Brenda had not seen anything like it before. Once her mother told her what it was she shared it with her brother. At the end of the war John recieved a large red apple which he had never see before with a message saying "a gift from the people of Canada"

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