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There was nothing lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a seven-foot dike and to plug a break in the Ouse River's banks...
Britons generally were resigned to taking more such ordeals from the dying cats. But somewhere in East Anglia Frank Harvey and his wife would take no more. In 1940 a bomb had crashed their marriage ceremony (which was finished later amid the debris of the church). This week a bomb found their house and killed them...
...East Anglia town Joan Smee was sitting in a municipal office "when a tracer bullet came through the window and went through my hair, setting it on fire." Somebody in the office put the fire...
...town. Likewise Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula, later to be known as Los Angeles. And Cromer was a town, and is a town, and you'll find it on a map of the east coast of England, in the district called East Anglia, facing the North Sea, facing Germany...
...only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...