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Elizabeth Henderson's Blog - Memories of an Unremarkable Woman

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Battle of Britain
While the whole country was living on tenterhooks, a victory here a retreat there, with no end in sight and certainly no certainty of final victory, I was as all teenagers preoccupied with my everyday life.

This was unrelieved dreariness as far as I was concerned. Raids still continued but not so relentlessly. Other towns were also being bombed and while London and the docks were a prime target we did get some reprieve. We were still in Sydenham on the route taken by the German planes coming in over the South Coast. Much of the navigating was by sight in those days and they followed the Thames. The two remaining towers of the Crystal Palace were destroyed as they were too much of a land mark. We dreaded what used to be called the Harvest Moon and had been renamed to Bomber's Moon as the skies were usually clear and moonlit.

Food was becoming increasingly short and all sorts of other items became short as our Merchant Navy had to battle through the German submarines to bring in fresh supplies.
This entry was posted on June 27, 2010 at 6:01 pm.
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