We delved into the archives to find these images of your grandparents and great grandparents keeping calm and carrying on with daily life despite the ever-present threat of German bombs.
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5. Members of the RAF
Pictured from left, Sgt Powell, navigator; Sgt Green, rear gunner: Sgt Gill, mid-upper gunner; F/O Campbell, bomb aimer. | JPIMedia Photo: submit
6. Christmas spirit
Doncaster railway works Christmas 1943 | Other 3rd Party Photo: supplied
7. Ready to bat
Mr Basil Doncaster led his team out to field against Mr J.E.Davison's XI at the opening of the Southey Cricket Week in naid of the Sheffield Newspapers War Fund, and Southey and Norwood Forces Aid fund, in Longley Park, Sheffield...June 1942 | JPIMedia Photo: ©Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
8. Floods during the war
Groceries being delivered by boat at Bentley, Doncaster, during flooding there Feb 1941 | JPIMedia Photo: Andrew Partridge