General Chat

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.

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Yes, it does Ann :-)

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

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

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

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

Thank you for this <3 :-)

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

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

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 :-)

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!

Nudging up as reminder :-)

Thanks Ann.