Parachute troops, bare-headed and wearing ‘jump jackets’, in Norwich during exercises in Eastern Command, 23 June 1941. (Credit: IWM collection). Original Taken by Lt Puttnam, Official War Office photographer. Image of drizzle and murk, Nick Stone, Official something-or-other.
Rather bizarrely the chap in the middle and the chap on the right look like people I know.
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The top one works really well. The series gives such a great feeling for the period.
I was 5 days old when this photo was taken. I can clearly remember the bombs dropping , as I was 4 when the war ended. My father was in the army and my mother sister and me were living on Aylsham Road in Norwich at my aunts house.
I was too young to scared it just seemed normal at the time.