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mwooldri

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5. Though a fun fact, pretty much everyone in UK did some service in WW2.

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Mon May 14, 2018, 12:05 AM

May 2018

If you had the equivalent of many 9/11's every day... you would be doing something to support the war effort.

Elizabeth was not required to serve, but she chose to, and it was in the latter part of the war when she was old enough (18).

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