大象传媒

Because of my mail censoring experience gained in Belfast, Northern Ireland I was posted to a WRN base in London. Every letter which came from the troops at that time had to be censored. I was based at the headquarters of the Censorship Organisation at 271 High Holborn, London. Due to the size of the task as many experienced censors as possible were required to read the letters. We censored all the letters until after the troop landings had taken place in France. After the landings there wasn鈥檛 the same need for censoring and I was sent to an Officers Training Unit where I gained my commission in 1944. During our time at the Officers Training Unit we were continually wakened by the droning noise of the Flying Bombs. They sounded like a motorcycle going overhead. The morning after the first of the Flying Bombs came over, we had a lecture from the head of the WRNS Press Officer, and she appeared to be quite shocked that this was taking place. I was only in the Officers Training Unit for a fortnight or so, and I was sent up to London again about the autumn of that year. I was based in an Officers Club, behind Buckingham Palace and the Germans had progressed from the drone of the Flying Bombs to bombs being dropped of which you received no warning. At least when the Buzz Bombs were overhead, you heard them and you knew when the noise stopped they were about to fall, but these new bombs gave no warning, there was a vast explosion and a great many deaths.

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