Rescue from bombing, Ealing

Contributor's father was issued Defence Medal for Civil Defence. He served in Ealing, London, and rescued, with the help of others, "old Mr Watts" from a bombed house in Meadvale Road (Ealing) which had been struck by a V1 or V2 in 1944. A.R.P badge worn in war. // 'The Road to Victory: a war game'. - Played by family after the war in the 1950s. The children found it frightening. In the war it was played by the parents under the stairs in Ealing, during an air raid. Not a brilliantly devised game as some of the rules cancel each other out. Obviously brought out late 1939-1940 (before the fall of France, the Low Countries etc) and mentions the Polish submarine Orzel which escaped the Nazis in September 1939 and went to the USA. The game imagined in 1940 that the BEF would advance through France and the Siegfried line to Berlin. Unpleasant pictures of a hanging Hitler and a man being whipped in a concentration camp.