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Coventry Blitz: Eight-year-old Tony Vail was evacuated out of Coventry at the start of WWII

Coventry Blitz

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Tony Vail was eight years old when he was evacuated out of Coventry for the first part of WWII. He was taken to South Warwickshire to a village called Wormleighton where he watched Coventry burning on the night of the Blitz. BBC Coventry & Warwickshire took Tony back to Wormleighton and to his Coventry school to see if there were any records of his experience.

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