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Originally Posted by Chappers 71
No your earlier post was the standard 'spiel'.
I know a fair bit about ww2, my great grandad was a supply driver because he was to old to fight, my grandad fought in North Afrika & Italy & my mum was a teenage girl living in Ramsgate (one of the ports the little ships set sail from) & remembers the ships returning laden with allied soldiers, many with terrible wounds.
She along with similar aged girls were tearing sheets into strips for the use of dressing wounds & distributing tea.  |
funny how the unaccepted and rarely touted view is the "speil".. makes no sense
Sorry your ancestors had to live thru that but that does not privy them to the intentions of the high command