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Conscripted in 1942 to W.A.A.F.. a single female aged 20 years and over if not, on munitions were being conscripted. I was ordered to WAAF interview ajoining the Odeon cinema on the mount York. Deciding to request to go on radio location. Being informed they did not use operators in the WAAF. Not wishing to be cook balloonist or driver. Stuck to my guns to go on radio location. It was suggested I go accross Leeds road to ATS recruitment centre and joined up as a volunteer. Radio location was radar.

Sent to Owestry to join heavy ackack battery after initial training. Spent three years mainly on the south cost to intercept bombers crossing the channel.

we were informed we shot down 5 Flying bombs (doodle bugs) each evening.we were staying in tents on the cliffs between Rye and Winchelsea, the only time we were billetted in a tented camp. Later we were redrafted to signal corps and trained as a physical training instructor and spent the last eighteen months in Prince's strret in Edinburgh. I was demobed in May 1946 My husband was demobed from the RAF in June 1946.

Ps. Sir Winston Churchill's second daughter Mary was one of our officers.

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