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Disney gas mask8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() At school we had out feet measured and mine were just under the required size, so I was not awarded any additional coupons. And those boys with big feet got more coupons. Milk was revolting enough, but they made it even worse by warming it on radiator pipes so that the lukewarm milk tasted disgusting. Perhaps nothing to do with the war, but we each had a third of a pint bottles of milk to drink. ![]() The windows had stick-on gauze so windows put out by a blast would not spread splinters of glass. My mother refused, no doubt envisaging the roof falling in and the cat going berserk as animals behind bars would.Īt primary school there were dugout shelters. Outside the wire grills, Mickey our cat patrolled and I would ask again and again if we could have him inside with us. I mean, they wouldn’t put animals in a cage that small. A Morrison shelter was a sort of iron table, but it was more like an iron cage in which my sister, mother and I slept. As the war progressed we had a Morrison shelter set up in the living room. When the siren sounded at night we went to the air raid shelter, which was a short walk from the house. I thought the mask was Mickey Mouse but somehow I remember it having a flapping tongue. ![]() I had a Disney gas mask, my sister had a conventional one. That evening in the local pub, my father talked to a drinking acquaintance who told him this hilarious story of how some distraught woman made a fool of herself pulling two children to the shelter, thinking a car horn was the air raid siren. My mother, thinking it was the air raid siren and we were about to be bombed, grabbed my sister and I and rushed along the street to the air raid shelter. One of the cars' horns jammed and sounded continuously. The day the war started, two cars collided outside the shop. ![]()
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