Memories of American Soldiers

Memories of American Soldiers

WW2

Alice Hannah's memories of American soldiers in WW2.

EMOHA

Ref: EMOHA70/83

EMOHA

1940s

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English

Oral History

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My son, he said, they went round, they give him chewing... they’re throwing sweets and chewing gum and oranges they’d brought, you see. And of course they had tins of fruit and that - some people encourage them in, they’re a bit lonely, you see, being in camp. But you, then they’d go in the pubs and of course, and, they got the money to spend and of course they often were cheated out of it because at the pubs you see they’d charge them a lot more than - they began to tumble to it in the end - charge them ever such a lot, take a pound, you know, when it were only a few coppers needed and that sort of thing. Exploiting them, you see, of course they've got the money. Bring the money to the pub and that. And I know a girl across the road there, she were a bit lonely, she used to go up there to a dance. Well, I didn't dare go, not dancing up there (unless) you got somebody with you. And one came to see her, and the mother and father wouldn’t let her. They just shut the door on him. I can see him walking down - disappointed, but of course there were a lot of girls exploited.

Frances Matterson

Alice Hannah