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This story has been added to the Peoples War website by Liz Andrew of the Lancshomeguard on behalf of Elsie Edge and has been added to the site with her permission.
I was at school in Fleetwoood during the war. I remember when war was declared because my mum sent me out of the room when Chamberlain made the announcement - she must have thought it would be too frightening for a child.
The Americans were stationed on Fleetwood pier. I was brought up Jewish and my dad who worked on the fishmarket ( he used to work at Billingsgate) brought the American Jews over to our house.They were all chefs - and we had some great meals - particularly from the Italian chef. The American lads were fantastic - polite and very generous - they gave us sweets and stockings and they brought their food over to our house and cooked it there - there were eggs, bacon, meat and lots of spaghetti. The Italian chef cooked lots of different spaghetti dishes - he was from New York. It was the best thing about the war.
The worst thing was the other food ..and worrying about our family in London. I was in London staying with my aunt when the first doodlebugs came down. I saw one - it was very frightening. I heard the buzzing and then it went silent. It dropped at Clapham Junction. We didn't know what they were. Two weeks later my aunt was blasted out by a doodle bug and she came up to Fleetwood to recover.
Being Jewish we felt very lucky to be out of Europe.

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