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15 October 2014
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Red skies for miles

by Genevieve

Contributed by
Genevieve
People in story:
Dorothy Cottis
Location of story:
London
Background to story:
Civilian
Article ID:
A5548647
Contributed on:
06 September 2005

You can’t really imagine being in London during the war — when they bombed the city the sky was red for miles and miles and miles.

Then, of course the planes coming were in their glory, they could just come in and they had the red light to show them where to come. It was awful!

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