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- 大象传媒 LONDON CSV ACTION DESK
- People in story:听
- Dorethea Johnson (Henning)
- Location of story:听
- Winchester Region
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A6882915
- Contributed on:听
- 11 November 2005
Ignorance is bliss when one is young . As a VAD Nurse (RN) in 1943 I was stationed in Hampshire at the Fleet Air Srm Station at Worthy Down.
Having some leave due, I thumbed a lift one day to get to Winchester to get to London. A vehicle stopped to help me. It was a lorry carrying a tank of liquid Oxygen, with two motor cylists as out riders. Care was paramount, we proceeded very slowly, and even when air raid started we did not stop.
I was not worried, just very glad not to have to be walking. But I have wondered since about the consequences of even a scrap of shrapnel hitting the load we were carrying. No straight forward bomb injuries here. The four of us would no doubt have been evaporated into nothing, with my mother never knowing the reason for my not turning up on leave!
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