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The missing casualty of the Luftwaffe bombing of Jersey

A UK historian is trying to find more about a woman and her children who could have been killed during the German air raid on Jersey.

Alan Blackmore is looking into the life of a soldier called Ivor Powell.

Jersey has been marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of St Helier by the Luftwaffe, when dozens of civilians were killed.

Soon after a story in a newspaper in Clevedon wrote of a lady called Mrs Powell being one of those victims.

The air raid on St Helier harbour and La Rocque heralded the start of the German military occupation of the island, which lasted five years....
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