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Sunderland Echo
  • 04/06/2024
Sunderland Echo reporter Chris Cordner sheds a light on some firsthand memories of the Second World War.
Watch the full feature on www.shotstv.com
Shots!TV can also be found on Freeview channel 276.
Transcript
00:00Do you wish you'd asked more earlier?
00:03That was the King's Theatre going up in flames and you could see it miles away.
00:08And I said to him one day, I'd really be nice to know sort of who you are.
00:14It was more dangerous to walk about during a raid
00:17because of the shrapnel from the guns than it was from the bomb.
00:21The war virtually had come to an important point where they invaded Normandy.
00:30you

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