Life as a child growing up in Britain in the Second World War (1939-45)
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Life as a soldier in the Second World War
John Potter was barely 18 when he was called up to fight in the war in January 1940. "I was very excited about fighting for my country but also very scared. I had to leave my wife, Mary and daughter, Phyllis in England while I was sent, as part of the British Expeditionary Force to assist the French." The German army swept across Northern France and Britain prepared to make an emergency evacuation of troops." We had lost great numbers of men and were all tired. We were constantly being fired at and feeling the strain of lugging so much equipment around while trying to protect others and ourselves from the enemy. I had suffered a small head wound and thought Dunkirk could be my last battle." Over 300,000 Allied troops were stuck around Dunkirk with the Luftwaffe fighters bombing them.
Eventually Britain put the emergency evacuation, codename Dynamo, into action. Evacuations were to take place from Calais, Bologne and Dunkirk with 10,000 every 24 hours. However the Germans had captured Calais and Bologne. " We were sure we would die b ...
