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Jemma Hutchison from Scotland. Posted 4 Mar 2003.
Hi,
I am doing a project at school on World War 2. I would be very grateful for any help to find out more information on it, I would really like to contact people who lived during the war, can you help me ?
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|  | Kate Carmichael from Fife. Posted 21 Mar 2003.
I was born during the war and remember dried bananas. They were brown and looked disgusting but I liked them. When I first saw a real banana I didn't like it.
Good luck with the project.
Kate.
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| | jmcoull from Australia. Posted 27 May 2003.
I remember going to the baker's early one morning for rolls and thought we'd been invaded. The bay was black with all kinds of ships complete with barrage balloons and the beach black with troops and landing craft. Since then I've never heard this mentioned.
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| | Andra Melville from New Zealand. Posted 14 Apr 2003.
I should remember WW2 in Glasgow. Recall it starting in 1939, I was 17 then. We lived in Carntyne and during the bomb raids we slept in our wee Morrison shelter. My dad and I had to dig it in our backyard. It wis cosy enough but I widnae like tae stay in one. A bomb dropped in the street no far from us and a splinter hit ma sister in her eye and she lost her eye, she wears a gless eye noo, she wis only 7 years old at the time. When I became old enough, I joined the Navy. Apart from a couple of wee scratches, I came through it OK. My wee sister lives in NZ same as me, and unless you knew it, you wid never know she has a Gless eye. Well it'd no actually gless, it's something that looks like a real eye. I could go on an on but this is only supposed tae be a message, No a book, so I'll say Ta Ta for the noo. Best o' luck in your project.
Andra Melville IV. Incidentally I'm noo 81 and my sister is 71.
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| | Allison from Tor. Ont. Canada. Posted 6 May 2003.
I was only 3yrs old when the war started, but I can remember when the sirens would go off in the middle of the nightand my parents would have to get us out of bed , bundle my sisters and brother in woollen blankets to go out into the cold shelter, we would bring sandwiches and hot tea because we did not know how long we would be in there !! My elder brother who was about eighteen at the time used to invite his friends over to the house to play cards, well when the sirens went and everyone was scrambling for the shelter my Father could not get those boys to move, they all swore they had a good hand yelling "THE NAZIS WILL JUST HAVE TO BOMB US BECAUSE WE ARE NOT MOVING !! I could write a book on some of my memories of the war, it was bad times but we also found a lot to laugh about too !
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| | Irene McCulloch Holodnak from Connecticut USA. Posted 7 Oct 2003.
I was 5 when the war started and the first thing I remembered was that all our pretty curtains had to go and in place of them we had thick black ones so the planes did not know where the cities and the people were.
If we did not close them correctly and any light at all showed we would have the "home guard" blow a whistle and come knock on our door. We had no street lights or close lights at all and as a little child it was very scary.
I remember when I started school we spent many days down in the air raid shelters and that is where we learned to sing. The teacher would try to distract us and have us sing songs and it helped a lot and I learned many songs.
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| | Edward Thomson from Glamis Angus. Posted 31 Oct 2003.
On 16 October 1939 I was a passenger to Aberdeen on the 14.30 train from Edinburgh.It had just entered the first archway ofthe Forth Bridge proceeding to Inverkeithing when my attention was drawn to the right of the train and below, to the Naval ships in the estuary.
Almost simultaneously there was an enormous waterspout alongside a ship which I later discovered was HMS Mohawk.
There ware two or three othe large explosions and the bridge painters were scrambling off the scaffoldings as the train continued over the Bridge.
There is a sequel to this - In 1977 I went to live in South Queensferry below the Bridge and I talked to many former painters and maintenance workers about our mutual experience that day. It must be said that with wartime decurity it was almost 30 years before it was disclosed that 15 navymen were killed on the Mohawk.
Some of them were buried in South Queensferry Cemetery.
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| | Alec Morgan from Renfrew. Posted 18 May 2004.
I lived in Hurlford during the war and I remember going to the railway station occasionally to meet the troop trains as they passed through. The soldiers used to throw chocolates and other foodstuff to us from their rations.
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| | Stewart Stevenson from Redcliffe. Australia.. Posted 6 Apr 2005.
I was about eight years when war was declared. I remember being in church at the time.
My brothers were all in the forces. My ma and two sisters wer left to run across the road to an air raid shelter. I remember well the Clydebank blitz, and when we came out of the shelter we could see the flames that was where houses were hit. I remember well the blackout, rationing, and how even coal was rationed. I remember those days well.
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| | William Ballantyne from Ajax, Ontario. Posted 6 Mar 2006.
This was one of the worst times for those in Clydebank. The German bombers were looking for the ship yards and the oil tanks, and after the first oil tank was hit that became a beacon, and every night old jerry zeroed in. That was the beginning of the end for Clydebank, my oldest brother was asked to acompany a doctor to search through the bodies that were recovered to make sure there were no live ones among them.
We moved from our old house to a new address and, when we went back after a short period of time, the house was gone and the Anderson shelter was somewhat tilted. A mine on the end of a parachute made short work of it. Many a time we were wakened with the big guns going of in the o.k hills... hope this helps a wee bit.
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