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During the war my father was a country doctor in North Staffordshire. We lived near an ordinance factory so we could hear gunfire all the time. We had American soldiers nearby and we were told not to accept sweets from them. There were a lot of epidemics and I thought that germs were Germans so I was very frightened especially in the winter when there were a lot of germs about. We had plenty to eat as all the payments for the doctor were made in food and we kept pigs. In the bad winter of 1940 my father had to get around on a horse. We only had one evacuee in the village.

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