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Gornal Stories

by Chestlib

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Contributed by 
Chestlib
Location of story: 
Gornal, near Dudley in the Black Country
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A3004516
Contributed on: 
15 September 2004

I remember the night they bombed Coventry.

In Gornal it was like daylight outside, andyou could see a huge red glow on the horizon. They made some German POWs clean up the mess after the Cathedral was bombed.

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