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I was born in England and was 18 years old when the war started.
I come from a large family and had two brothers and two sisters evacuated,which was traumatic for my mother,as the children went off carrying thier gas masks. I will always wonder how those people managed having strange children dumped on them.Then came rationing which made it even more difficult.
I joined the WAAFS when I was 20 years old in 1941 and managed to get a wonderful job in flying cotrol as a Radio Telegraph operator after a 3 month course.
One of the stations I was at was called Topcliffe in Yorkshire,it was a Halifax bomber command with operations almost every night.
We had many crash landings on the runways and far too often the crews did not come back.When we went off duty at 8.o'clock in the morning, going to the mess for breckfast was very harrowing,as a lot of the girls would walk over to you and ask if G for George or T for Tommy had come backfrom the last mission. Some of them were left crying.
One day I received a message that our family apartment had been bombed and I was given compassionate leave. When I got home the apartment was gone along with all our possesions.
Unfortunately, it was a weekend when my mother had decided to have the children home for a few days. There was a terrible bombing,then the floor of the apartment fell through,and my brother was sitting on top of the two dead children who lived on the floor below.Thankfully none of my family was even hurt and with the help of a porter they climbed out the window to safety.
They were allocated a space at the shelter centre where we satyed along with a lot of the other bombed out families.My family was eventually resettled in a large Victorian house.
My name in those days was Peggy Lloyd L.A.C.W 2026645.I enlisted in 1941 and was discharged in 1946, having been at several other aerodromes, in the mean time I was in G group most of the time.

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