“I recall the elderly man at Coventry who all his life had been a carter—or a drayman ,as we would say in my country. The bombs got his house. He put down two caravans —or trailers, as we would say —and he and his wife live in them on the spot where their house stood. He told me of his wife being thrown violently across the room by the force of the explosion. Both her eyes were blackened. Their home was gone, his job was gone. But he still could say to his wife that he was ‘glad it was Hitler who had blacked her eyes —not him’.” —Ralph McGill, an American, talking 'on impressions of Britain in a 8.8. C. broadcast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 5
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