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Moving through the southern suburbs of Birmingham on the morning of June 3, 1940, a bus bound for the city was making slow progress, its overworked conductor repeatedly having to advise there was no more room upstairs and standing room only inside! There were signs of a little uneasiness among some passengers, after having heard a warning that air raids on England were likely to begin soon after the fall of Dunkirk. News agencies were indirectly advising that, as soon as Luftwaffe pilots ran out of targets on the Continent, their attention was expected to switch quickly to Britain's industrial cities, with Birmingham and Coventry almost certainly to be in the forefront.

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Joe Lake was a private in the British Army from 1940 to 1945. In September 1940, when he was fourteen years old, he officially enlisted after convincing the recruiting officers he was nineteen. At that time, The Battle of Britain raged in the skies above England and Luftwaffe bombs rained down nightly on his home city of Birmingham. In England, he served as an infantryman in the South Staffordshires, and as a Red Beret in the Regiment's Glider Battalion, before landing at Normandy during the D-Day Allied invasion at Sword Beach in June 1944.By then, just eighteen years of age, he was a seasoned soldier, having had four years active service. He saw heavy action during the autumn and winter of 1944-45, through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, first in the trenches, and then as a reconnaissance sniper for the 8th Brigade, often in No Man's Land between his and enemy lines.

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