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Though I am 83 now, I was 18 years of age when I actually went in the W.A.A.F. but had seen the fires in the distance when the docks burned in Liverpool. When the air raid sirens sounded we went into shelters. The sirens went to tell us the planes where over head and we could not get home from work until the all clear went off.
Many people died when an air raid shelter the corner of Botanic Road was hit. It was under a school so far as I can remember and pipes burst. Awful times they were.
In 1940 Littlewoods in Walton Hall Avenue, where I was employed at the time, was closed and turned over to the Ministry Of War, to start making ration books. We were all made redundant. At the next firm I went to I was not on munitions, I was free to go in the services. My friend and I decided to join the services together. My friend, after having our medical etc, was refused to be let out of her firm; The Automatic Telephone company in Edge Lane, so I had to go alone. Quite a shock at 18 years of age, as I had not been far from Liverpool then, but, once we鈥檇 signed our names to go into the service, we had to go, we couldn鈥檛 change our minds. So that was that. Of course these days young people are flying all over the place, how things have changed!

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