Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum: Children's Voices from the Second World War

Christina Rex

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum: Children's Voices from the Second World War
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 December 2012
Pages
192
ISBN
9781445607023

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum: Children’s Voices from the Second World War

Christina Rex

Throughout six years of conflict, beginning 3 September1939, military manoeuvres, bombs and exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children. For the young, this was a time of great excitement. Imagine the thrill of Anderson Shelters built in back gardens, concrete blocks and barbed-wire sprouting on beaches, soldiers and tanks in the streets, the Battle of Britain and those spectacular dogfights, the Blitz and masses of shrapnel to collect, searchlights lighting up the night sky, American servicemen appearing and their inexhaustible supplies of chewing gum! From Dunkirk to D-Day, through Doodlebugs to Victory, there was hardly a dull moment and remarkably little fear for children as they learned, collected and played under these bizarre circumstances.

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