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           <title>Recalling our darkest hour</title>
           
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  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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           <title>A night-time walk in the forest</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Sights set on winning county Spitfire Stakes</title>
           
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           <title>Captured German flight crew had gift of the English gab!</title>
           
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  DESPITE the constant fear of enemy attack during the Blitz, there was at least one lighter moment, reported by the Daily Echo in October 1940, under the headline: “Unsolicited testimonials from
  captured German raiders.’’ It appears three German flyers had bailed out of their fatally damaged aircraft over Southampton and managed to parachute safely to the ground.
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           <title>Lessons not learnt from war</title>
           
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  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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           <title>‘If we’re bombed we’ll all go together’</title>
           
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  MY memories of the Southampton Blitz are still with me now.
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           <title>‘A carnival of hate’: Echo saw it happen</title>
           
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  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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           <title>‘Listen, they are Jerries!’</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Bravest of the brave</title>
           
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           <title>Salute to the   Blitz heroes</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Keith Hamilton remembers one hero and his “little job of work’’ 
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           <title>Grim toll of victims</title>
           
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  SOUTHAMPTON was in the forefront of the Battle of Britain.
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           <title>The Battle of Britain</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  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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           <title>Darkest days turned into the nation’s ‘finest hour’</title>
           
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  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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