Stories categorised in 'Women's Auxiliary Air Force'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
While scanning the Cathode Ray screens with their brilliant green blips and the circles marking off the...
From our unit at Capel, which was right on the cliffs about 100 feet up from the sea, we could see the...
For the next course, a private house called 鈥淲oodlands鈥 close to Fighter Command H.Q. at...
I went to bed that night thinking, 鈥楢 Belgian has slept in that bed, then a German has slept in it...
In August 1944, just two months after the D-Day landing in Normandy, I was posted to R.A.F. Fairford in...
Whilst at Bushey Park I saw famous men and leaders of the Forces, both British Officers and Generals as...
To meet this difficulty a system called the Alarm Within the Alert was devised, and the Civil Defence...
Madame Tournier took me round the grounds and through the sunken garden with flowers of all sorts and...
I did not join up until January 1943 when the Battle of Britain was well and truly over, but after my...
I was on leave just after this at home in Littleover when I received a telegram to return to duty.I was...
I was posted, along with another WAAF who had been on the course with me, to RAF East Fortune - a remote...
In December 1941 I was posted to Broadway, near St James's Park: the plaque at the front door read...
As the tail of the plane whipped backwards, Frank was worried he would be flipped into the fire so...
Before I knew all the rules of the Fighter Station, I sauntered across the Parade Ground, and an Officer...
Our designation was Clerk/Special Duties which was working as plotters in Fighter Command operations and...
I set off to meet Jim wearing a pair of grey silk stockings instead of the regulation air-force blue lisle...
Having passed I was sent to Bomber Command 4 Group York and subsequently taken to 78 Squadron Breighton,...
I came back home first and then went to Insworth, Gloucestershire, then Weston-Super-Mare, Penarth in Wales...
I volunteered and was then posted to HQBC, but was attached to the US Eighth Bomber Command at High...
If the balloon was bedded down each member of the crew would be allocated to work on either the port or...
The task in France was to get across the Rhine into Belgium. For her service Mary got 4 medals 鈥...
Douglas Bader flew with two artificial legs, but I think I was the only servicewoman driver with one leg....
It was strictly a Court Martial offence for W.A.A.F. personnel to fly and although I had tried my hand at...
One day the officer stuck his head round the door and a girl hit it with a pencil thinking it was the...
Insufficient coupons for a wedding dress The next time there was a dance at the NAAFI he was there and...
When Doris was a child she lived in Birmingham with her mother, father and sister. Doris and her sister...