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Recalling our darkest hour

10:30am Tuesday 2nd November 2010

A SPECIAL service will be held to mark the 70th anniversary of the Southampton Blitz at St Mary’s Church, in St Mary Street, on November 30 – the day the church lost its roof during a German bombing raid.

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A night-time walk in the forest

3:38pm Thursday 7th October 2010

Dear Sir SEVENTY years ago I lived with my baby son and my husband near Sway. My parents lived at Exbury and my mother was dying of breast cancer.

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Sights set on winning county Spitfire Stakes

12:46pm Wednesday 6th October 2010

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Lessons not learnt from war

3:38pm Thursday 23rd September 2010

RECENT publications in the Echo and the national press, together with the television programmes have brought back many memories of the Second World War.

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‘If we’re bombed we’ll all go together’

12:24pm Wednesday 22nd September 2010

MY memories of the Southampton Blitz are still with me now.

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‘A carnival of hate’: Echo saw it happen

12:55pm Monday 20th September 2010

Throughout the Second World War, the Daily Echo remained at the heart of a bomb-blasted Southampton, with its close-knit communities and people who really did keep calm and carry on.

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‘Listen, they are Jerries!’

12:49pm Monday 20th September 2010

THE terrible events which befell Southampton all those years ago, were so traumatic that despite the passage of time there are still many local people who vividly remember the Second World War enemy air raids, which will always be known as the Blitz.

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Bravest of the brave

3:49pm Tuesday 14th September 2010

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Salute to the Blitz heroes

2:17pm Monday 13th September 2010

Keith Hamilton remembers one hero and his “little job of work’’ which won him the George Medal.

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Grim toll of victims

2:14pm Monday 13th September 2010

SOUTHAMPTON was in the forefront of the Battle of Britain.

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The Battle of Britain

2:09pm Monday 13th September 2010

Fighters made frantic trails across the Hampshire skies, chasing one another to escape almost certain death at the hands of the enemy.

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Darkest days turned into the nation’s ‘finest hour’

11:11am Thursday 9th September 2010

It would be called the “Spitfire Summer’’, as, 70 years ago, high in the blue skies over the south coast the unmistakable, throaty roar of Merlin engines was heard time and time again as Britain fought off the forces of an evil aggressor.

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