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...bombin' and shootin...
...worst of the blitz BBC's Gilliam parked a sound truck near a London shelter to record the comments of East Enders emerging after eight hours underground. A cocky cockney woman grabbed the microphone and said: "If 'itler thinks 'e can win this war by bombin' women and children, 'e's fahnd a big mistyke, that's all. Because we can tyke it, we can tyke it." According to Gilliam, the cockney woman's use of the phrase was the hit, became the popular answer to the blitz...
...Another time I see him standin' on the bridge and lookin' up while we was takin' a horrible dive bombin'. It wasn't a matter of lookin' up at the sky to see the Stukas, it was a matter of lookin' up at the Stukas to see a patch of sky. 'There's a bluenose [1,000-lb. bomb] comin' down two points off the starboard bow,' he says to the captain, like he was tellin' him there was a small school of flying fish ahead...
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