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Inside Lives

SECOND WORLD WAR

There are stories all around us, and everyone has one to tell.
Here at the Inside Lives Project you've been coming in to our recording studios and telling us your stories of World War 2


	War Dog As a teenage piper in the Black Watch, Mick had an encounter with a War Dog!			The False Alarm Barbara can remember the day that World War 2 broke out like it was yesterday.

	Submarine Chaser Bill spent a week on a training course at HMS Osprey.			Remembered Sylvia was just a little girl when World War 2 broke out.

	Super Trooper Ken was just a young man when he joined the paratroopers.			Wounded in Germany Tom was gravely wounded during the closing stages of World War II.

	From Boy To Man Ernest's D-Day story shows that a lot of war stories are glorified.			Whites Of Their Eyes Dick's story demonstrates the vulnerability of soldiers.

	Grandfather Jeff's interest in World War One & Two came about by accident...literally.			Into D-Day On A Bike Albert's story has to be heard to be believed.

	A Night To Remember Brian's mother's swift actions, when the air raid siren failed, saved his life.			Happy Days When Pamela was sent to Wales as an evacuee she didn't know what to expect .

	Try A Telescope Memories of the recovery from an accident still bring a smile to Peter's face.			Back In Anger As a young Jew, Else fled Nazi Germany for England.


	No FairyTale An act of bravery by an auntie Sonja would never meet.			Lest We Forget Sydney's father came to Britain many years before the Nazi rise to power


	A Moment In History How many of us can say we witnessed history in the making?			Internal Spies Did you ever wonder who lived in your house before you did?


	Rats Dorothy had an idyllic childhood in stoke-on-Trent			And more... You're sending in more accounts by the month

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