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Events on Monday 31 December 1945 1
1942 – 1945Wartime Factory WorkAt 13, was sent to work in a military factory sewing parachutes for the Japanese army during World War II. She later said she spent her adolescence 'in closed darkness', hearing air-raid sirens and watching American B-29 bombers fly overhead. The experience instilled a lifelong commitment to personal and creative freedom.