Yanks Gave Us Sweets and Fruit ; Yousay in Your Opinion ...

South Wales Echo › December 30, 2011

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FOLLOWING on the American Invasion story in the Echo ("Warm welcome for wartime GIs", December 6), during the war, I lived at 47 Ferry Road, Grangetown, and we had an American camp on the Marl which stretched from Bowles' Sand & Gravel Wharf to Channel View Road and Ferry Road to the top of Channel View Road.

I remember the Yanks giving us sweets and tinned fruit, especially at Christmas time.

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Yanks Gave Us Sweets and Fruit ; Yousay in Your Opinion ...

They were a friendly lot, although there were...

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