Crews' Families Left to Try to Rebuild Lives ; to Mark This Month's 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Second World War, the Western Morning News Asked Readers for Their Memories of the Westcountry at War.

Western Morning News, The › September 28, 2009

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We were inundated with responses and in the latest of our series of features about the outbreak of the war and its effects on the people of the Westcountry, we look at more memories of those who were children when war was declared and a newly-wed who vividly recalls thinking it would all be over by Christmas

IRECALL the social problems after the sinking of the Devonport manned aircraft carrier Courageous, at 11.59am on Sunday September 17, 1939. There were 682 survivors and 518 casualties.

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Crews' Families Left to Try to Rebuild Lives ; to Mark This Month's 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Second World War, the Western Morning News Asked Readers for Their Memories of the Westcountry at War.

Until 1939, Navy ships were manned from the area the vessel was berthed - Devonport, Chatham, Portsmouth etc. All 1,200 crew of...

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