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My Nan did not play a big part in the war, she didn鈥檛 actually play a part at all, and this is because she lived in India at the time.

She told me that there was no war near India, it was more near Iraq. If my Nan played any part in the war it would have been a civilian part. She was only about 8 years old; she said to me that the closest the war ever came to India was when they got Japanese kamikazes flying over India. Because there were so many Japanese Kamikazes flying over India my Nan and her brothers, sisters and her parents evacuated to nearby trenches. She said the conditions weren鈥檛 very nice.

She remembers that they where dug out of soil and weren鈥檛 very attractive. That was the closest that they got to being bombed or attacked. Although there was no war near India, at the Indian schools they still had to have bombing drills, they would have to always have a bottle of water, an eraser, a pencil and something warm, because at night they had a few drills, and it got really cold. Other than that life in India continued as it normally had.

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