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World War Two Wren Elizabeth Cooke nee McVey on what it was like to work in Malta after the siege.

To see Malta so destroyed – to walk through all the rubble. To go to your office by walking through the buildings that were just, had been standing there and were now just rubble, was all very sad. The whole place was sad. Everybody had gone through such a terrible time – and were still going through it. There were still a few stray bombs, the place was – we still had several air raids - it was still the Italians bombing. But not for very long, we just were at the end as it petered out. We didn’t see anything of the shortages, I mean the food was never plentiful, event when we were there it was pretty ghastly, but it was never at the stage where it was running out completely like it had been when the siege was on.

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