WW2 evacuee: 'I thought I was going on a day trip'

Kitty Baxter’s ninth birthday was 1 September, 1939. It was also the day her life and millions of other people’s changed with the beginning of World War Two.

Kitty was among the hundreds of thousands of children taken out of UK cities and into the countryside, away from the risk of German bombs.

For more on Kitty's story, listen to Witness History.

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