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- Elsie M Grint
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- Elsie M Grint
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- Middle Wallop & other places
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- Royal Air Force
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- A2201707
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- 14 January 2004
I served in the Womens Auxilliary Airforce, during the Battle of Britian, 1940 & 1941. on the Royal Airforce Station at Middle Wallop, which is near Andover and the South Coast.
When I arrived there were 3000 Airmen there, and only 30 WAAF's, and we had Hurricane Planes. We were often bombed and spent many nights down the Air raid shelters , but during one bad raid all the civilians ran out of the gates instead of the air raid shelters, and all were killed.
Before I knew all the rules of the Fighter Station, I sauntered across the Parade Ground
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