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There seemed to be hundreds of Americans in the area.”

“They used to arrive in the evenings. They came from Stratford where the flat race course was being used as a landing strip, then of course there were all the airfields round about such as Honeybourne.”

“The girls flocked to them because they had plenty of money to splash out. There were also a few Polish men. The soldiers came here for the entertainment - we had the cinema, the dancing, the public houses - and the girls! Quite a few girls married Americans and went back to the USA with them"

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