Old silk stockings collected by the WVS are used by airmen under their own socks as a additional means of keeping warm, and are also used to keep bandages clean. 25 September 1941. (20/25)

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Old silk stockings collected by the WVS are used by airmen under their own socks as a additional means of keeping warm, and are also used to keep bandages clean. 25 September 1941.

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