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Home Front Britain: Christmas Under Fire - (04:28)

By the end of 1940, Britain's best hope in the war against Germany was to convince the US to become an ally. Christmas Under Fire was one of the films produced by the Ministry of Information to help convince the American public that Britain was worth

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Spam was eaten extensively by GIs in World War II. In wartime Britain, it was often referred to as 'pink lint'. 

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