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Londoners remember the first days of the Blitz

Rose Patience, a waitress during the war, remembers sheltering from the bombs under an arch in Abbey Street. Ted Wilson, a volunteer firefighter, describes the chaos of London's burning docks.

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Finest HourEpisode 4

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