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Radio 4,1 min

Blitz crush: 'One wet, mauve body was brought in'

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During World War Two Dr Joan Martin was a junior casualty officer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, London. At 8.45pm on 3 March 1943 they received a phone call telling them to expect thirty faints from Bethnal Green underground station, which was being used as an air raid shelter. She described what she witnessed to Eddie Mair. (Image: Bethnal Green underground station sign. Credit: 麻豆社)

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