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I only had one fellow - we got married in 1937. I already had two little girls when war broke out. Luckily my husband was in a reserved occupation - you know, he did't have the call-up - as a millwright at the G.E C. They were all put on war work. My brother-in-law was in the forces till his lungs went. I was at home for the Blitz at Stoke Heath. My husband and a neighbour were holding on to a barrage balloon that had broken away from its moorings. They were strafed by the Luftwaffe. In our house the front and back doors were in a direct line: I had a bullet pass right through the house from front to back!

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