In November 1940, readers of the Shamokin News-Dispatch in Shamokin, PA opened their paper to a first-hand account of the London Blitz, sent from a woman living beneath the German bombs then falling on the British capital during World War II. The letter came from Alice Watts, chief telephone operator in Streatham, a neighborhood on the south side of London, and it had traveled thousands of miles to reach Pennsylvania’s Coal Region.
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