- Contributed byÌý
- Lancshomeguard
- People in story:Ìý
- Fred Maskew and an unknown American soldier
- Location of story:Ìý
- Outside a Cinema in Penarth Glamorgan
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4483695
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 18 July 2005
This story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Anne Wareing of the Lancashire Home Guard on behalf of Sylvia Horner and has been added to the site with her permission…..
We had a large number of Americans in camps around the town and one evening as I left the cinema with my parents, a very large G.I. asked to speak to my father. We went on, but when my father rejoined us he was laughing.
The G.I. had taken him aside and said quietly
‘Do you want to buy some cigarettes duty free?’
My father, who was 5ft 4ins looked up at him and said equally quietly
‘I’m a Surveyor of Customs and Excise’
The G.I. disappeared like lightning.
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