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Wartime West Sussex 1939-45

Cynthia Bacon

Cynthia Bacon was a child during the war and lived near the aerodrome at Shoreham-by-Sea. She was sent to Horsham for six months because of the fear of invasion. Her family also had evacuees staying with them who came from Purley near Croydon. Her father was in the Home Guard and her mother was an Air Raid Warden.

1. Cynthia Bacon Recalls iron being collected for the war effort
2. Cynthia Bacon Talks about Anderson and Morrison shelters
3. Cynthia Bacon Talks about food and cloths rationing
4. Cynthia Bacon Recalls her early memories of war in Shoreham
5. Cynthia Bacon Talks about her gas mask
6. Cynthia Bacon Talks about the evacuees in Shoreham
7. Cynthia Bacon Recalls a bomb hitting Shoreham
8. Cynthia Bacon Remembers the sound of Bombers going over and Hitler's rockets
9. Cynthia Bacon Talks about her father's reserved occupation as a shipwright and the homeguard
10. Cynthia Bacon Describes Shoreham's beach defences and Operation Sealion


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