| Peter explains how he left school and looked for a job. His mother bought him an expensive new suit with 'a year's worth' of ration vouchers, and got a job in a local government office in the public health department. During this time he underwent training, and was unhappy that he had to return to a nightschool. Peter explains about not being able to use his motorcycle as much as he would like, because petrol was very highly rationed, and when he did get any petrol vouchers (admitting it was 'probably dodgy'), all the signs had been removed. He was conscripted to the army soon after, and explains that it was a gruelling experience, where 'your brain is scrambled' and you are changed 'from a boy to a man in six weeks'. He explains that he wasn't a soldier on the front lines, but (worked with?) radars, still in the country.
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