The Making of AN ENDURTING FRIENDSHIP
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2012

My sixth birthday was in July 1942.In that year my parents had an air raid shelter dug in the backyard of our home in the suburbs of Perth; we had blackout paper on the windows; and on at least one occasion my mother came to our school and took me home because she had been told there was going to be an air raid.For the first and only time since the first Europeans came to settle in Western Australia there had been the threat of attack from the air and from the sea and it was Japan which was the