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Sn!pe wrote:
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>> Sn!pe wrote:
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>>>> i'm learning about the blitz and the dark
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>>> My parents lived in Central London throughout the Blitz.
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>> yikes , poor mom
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> Dad failed the medical so the army wouldn't take him. He did Civil
> Defence stuff instead, like fire-spotting from church towers during
> air raids. Most civilians were sheltering from the bombing by going
> "down the tube" to the underground railway. If you were lucky, your
> home would still be there when you came up to the surface the next
> morning, but many were bombed out.
>
i've seen those civil defense guys in movies rushing everybody inside