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Growing up Experience

To my horror I saw that they were being followed by German Stukas... In two months I had come from a little...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 3..other activities

I started to learn the piano when I was 7 and was taught to be a classical pianist and reached...

In memory of Vi

It was Christmas and she had spent hours procuring and then cooking mince pies for the boys... We all...

Memories of World War 2: A WAAF at Scampton

I was a WAAF stationed at Scampton as a telephone wireless operator... The Dam Busters had bombed the...

A WAAF at Bentley Priory

I started on general duties and then got promoted to special duties at Bentley Priory, handling...

Margaret Smith - My story

At the age of seventeen and a half Margaret Smith from Northern Ireland was sent to ‘Square...

Sister WAAFs

My sister and I went to Newcastle and looked after girls working on the balloon sites. We were then...

My Time with the WAAFS

I was in the WAAFS, as an ambulance driver... Yes I saw a good bit of action but in the main it...

Enlisting

I attempted to join up in l943 aged l7, but, although I was working at a wine merchants at the time, my...

Replaced by Clark Gable

It was Clark Gable....

Betty Martin's War

My Aunty Betty joined the Royal Air Force as an Ambulance Driver, she was based in Hawarden and one of her...

Travelling by Train During Wartime

Children were passed down the carriages from soldier to soldier to get them to the toilet at the end of the...

Young Women during the War

I had ups and downs and sadness but one thing was always with you — true friendship, which in my case...

Climbing the Radar

I worked in the WAAF as a radar operator... On the bases we had large towers which the men had to climb...

Womens Auxilliary Airforce

I served in the Womens Auxilliary Airforce, during the Battle of Britian, 1940 & 1941, on the Royal...

With the WAAF in Yarmouth

I was in the WAAF, stationed at great Yarmouth....

In the Air Force

I served in the WAAF during the war, based at Aldergrove... I met my husband during the war while he was...

Plane Landing In Flames

This is a story from Mary Fletcher who was a cook in the WAAFs at RAF Bruntingthorp during the war. Not a...

Incident at Worthing

I looked out of the window and saw a German aircraft flying just above the hedge... It was found to be...

Joan Christopher

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Joan Christopher 3

Joan was in the WRAF and worked at a barrage balloon site at Tottenham in London....

Recollections of V-E Day

When asked about her recollections of V-E Day, my mother's response was somewhat terse 'We were as...

Royal Air Force

We worked on spitfires and hurricanes, We trained in Buckinghamshire. During the war I was stationed in...

Cora's Story

Picture taken at Morecombe where I learnt to march. After leaving a trade at Marksham Wiltshire, I was...

War-time Bletchley Park

I was a Teleprinter Operator trained at Cranwell. In May 1944 all leave was cancelled and so we "Knew...

Clowne Photographs No. 2

Clowne Photographs No. 2...