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When I was nineteen I joined the W.A.A.F (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) for four and a half years. I looked after pilots who had been left badly burnt and disfigured. I was sent to Gloucester to do a month of training and I was then sent to Stanmore to look after the soldiers, I had to go wherever I was put. There was a soldier I remember well who was called Hillary, he was so badly disfigured that he only wanted to be looked after my a man. I moved to Farnham (near Aldershot) to continue looking after the pilots, while there I saw a bomber being tested that was top-secret. I once cut myself on a barbed-wire fence that a group of us used as a short cut, we were supposed to stay away from it because it was top-secret behind there. The war helped me to grow up, I was the youngest of twelve children and was previously used to being looked after. I was a lance corporal and my army number was 458155, I am now eighty-four years old.

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