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A German bomb, turning this bedroom into a sleeping perch, leaves a flimsy canopy above the bed.
An Air Raid Precautions worker searches the cottage to see that no one, alive or dead is left in the wreckage. No man in Dover can be sure his home will not be struck next. Love of his front-line city holds him fast. “We’ve not really been blitzed” he says.

Image: This book shop is one of Dover’s many “Front-line” stores.

This book shop is one of Dover’s many “Front-line” stores.

Distinction of being closest to the enemy is considered good advertising. This store claims to be just “over the fence” from Hitler. It’s most popular books are about Dover itself. As in the United States, blackouts in England have given enforced home-stayers more time for reading.

mage: They mend the maimed.

They mend the maimed.
Three Dover nurses chat in front of a blast wall protecting the entrance to a cave shelter. Seventeen-year-old Joyce Fagg (centre) is a decorated heroine of Dover’s long siege.

Image: Raising chickens under fire is everybody’s business in “Hell’s Corner”

Raising chickens under fire is everybody’s business in “Hell’s Corner.”
Eggs are scarce in wartime Dover. Almost everyone keeps a hen house to supplement the three-a-month egg ration. This flock occupies a once fashionable flower garden facing the seaside promenade.

 


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