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  A second volume of local wartime memories will be launched next week.
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           <title>We opened fire with all we had...</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  To Jim Welland, memories of the Battle of Kohima in north-east India are still vivid, 65 years on.
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           <title>Help me tell the tale of Camp 186</title>
           
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  COLCHESTER’S Berechurch Hall military camp played its part during the Second World War – but not for soldiers of the British Army.
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  George Allen spent much of the war far from Colchester.
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  An American fighter pilot returned to Colchester to recall his part in the war.
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           <title>A flying missile went right over my head</title>
           
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  While fathers and brothers were on foreign shores fighting, children were having their own wartime experiences back at home.
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  While many Colchester residents witnessed the devastation caused by bombs, perhaps few came as close as Marie Jackson to the bombs themselves.
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  John Swain was part of the September 1940 evacuation from Colchester to Longton in Staffordshire when he was aged just seven.
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