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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 12 Aug 2022 18:03

Britains Secret War Babies C4 17th August

Mary and John were born to British women and African American GIs and never knew their dads. They embark on an emotional journey to learn about their fathers and their rich Black heritage.

:-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 12 Aug 2022 19:47

Yes, it does Ann :-)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 12 Aug 2022 23:21

It certainly does look interesting!

My friends (much older) sister, Susan lived in the New Forest during the war.- she was a teenager at the time.
American troops were based there - black and white billeted seperately.

Susan told me there were dances in the village hall in Brockenhurst, where only the white soldiers were allowed to attend. The locals didn't lke this, so the Americans held seperate dances, whites one night, blacks another,

The girls didn't turn up for the 'whites only' nights.
The Americans had to concede that there was no racial bias in Brockenhurst, and both black and white soldiers went dancing on the same nights.

That's 'people' power! :-D :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 13 Aug 2022 19:51

People Power indeed Maggie :-D :-D :-D

My mum frequented the dances also, her best friend married a “yank” and moved to California….sadly the marriage did not last..however she stayed in the USA and remarried, Mum flew out to see her in the 80’s :-D

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 13 Aug 2022 20:43

That does look interesting Ann, thank you for pointing it out.

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 13 Aug 2022 22:10

You are welcome, I read an interesting book a few years ago about a son searching for over 30 years for his GI father, if I remember the title will post it. x

EDIT…….What Price Success by Norman Spencer

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 14 Aug 2022 09:30

Thank you for this <3 :-)

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 14 Aug 2022 10:08

I echo that, Mr M. Thank you Ann. <3

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 14 Aug 2022 13:34

Ann, thank you for putting the book title up, I've got it on kindle now.

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 14 Aug 2022 13:42

There is another one I have read but dam if I can find it on my Kindle, the above tells a lot of his life with his mother before the search begins. Will have another go at looking :-)

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 14 Aug 2022 15:33

Gawd after an hour of searching kindle and googling every which way without the authors name I found it :-D :-D

Cast no Stones….Kevin Machell….really enjoyed this one!

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 17 Aug 2022 12:51

Nudging up as reminder :-)

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 17 Aug 2022 13:33

Thanks Ann.