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Born in Hammersmith as Irene Peverett, I took up nursing after my sister had died from injuries sustained in the Blitz. I joined the Princess Mary's Nursing Service which is part of the Royal Air Force. From 1944 until the end of the war I was based at Down Amply, Gloucestershire.
We served in any combat area where the Royal Air Force was engaged. I made forty two trips to Normandy beach heads and the battlefields of Arnhem. The RAF Dakotas took bombs etc., on the outward journeys and brought severely injured troops home. The plane could carry twenty four badly wounded personnel who were strapped to stretchers and secured to the sides in the aircraft. I was in sole charge of the patients on my flight. After leaving hell on the ground they were considerably relieved when told we were flying over the white cliffs of Dover.
As nurses we became known as the Flying Nightingales and I am one of the remaining few.

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