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I was born and brought up at Kenwyn Terrace, Trehaverne, Truro and have enjoyed reading entries about Truro during the war. I was born in 1947 but well remember my parents telling me about the excitement of having the Americans in town.

My father was in the home guard, and my mother looked after my two older brothers, born in 1938 and 1940. This meant that although there was a spare room in the house they did not take evacuee children but instead took adults who were working maybe as civil servants at the Min of Ag.

My parents met some of the troops at the City Hotel down the road near the railway bridge.

My mother's sister was called up to work in the munitions factories up country somewhere, and another sister joined the WAAF.

As one contributor says, his memories may not have been recorded but this site has changed all that!