BLackouts and Air Raids During WW2

Title: BLackouts and Air Raids During WW2
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BLackouts and Air Raids During WW2

The blackouts and raids were a very tough experience during the war.It was very tough going about your daily business throughout them. It became difficult and easy to forget to put out your hall light if someone knocked on your door. To black out the light from my house, my mother and father used to put up black curtains or put up brown paper against the windows. If people failed to do this, wardens …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 648 total…masks which covered the eyes nose and mouth. They had filters at the front of them to stop people breathing in gas. The filters contained asbestos, which at the time people did not know it was a danger to your health. Schools would have regular practises of putting on the gas masks but fortunately gas masks were never needed because German soldiers found that gas is a very difficult and dangerous chemical to deal with.

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