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- Molly Wood
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- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A3219356
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- 03 November 2004
This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Jan Moore for Kent Libraries and Archives and Canterbury City Council Museums on behalf of Molly Wood and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was in the WAAF, stationed at Penrhos in Wales 1942, a radio operator. I was on nightime duty in communications and a message came through,'Hello Darky' (a call sign to me from an aircraft) 'Engine on fire ...(he was over Devon). I had to make sure he was one of the American Allied Forces and asked for his call sign,which was Asshanti Pete.
I gave him instructions to land at 003 at LLandwrog, but he didn't make the base and crashed into the Irish Sea. I found out later that they were all saved.
(I never got a pair of nylons though, for saving them!)
In 1944, I was still at Penrhos and we were on coastal frequency. I heard a babble of voices over the airwaves, but continued landing local aircraft. Suddenly, the door flew open, an officer came in and I was told to get off the airwaves and change frequency, as I was interfering with the commands for the D-Day landings!
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