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- Elsie M Grint
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- Elsie M Grint
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- Middle Wallop and other Places
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- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A2182394
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- 07 January 2004
I served in the Womens Auxilliary Airforce, during the Battle of Britian, 1940 & 1941, on the Royal Airforce Station at Middle Wallop, which is near Andover and the South Coast.
When I arrived there were 3000 Airmen there and only 30 WAAF's. It was a Fighter Station and we had Hurrican Planes. We were often bombed and spent many nights down the Air raid Shelters, but during one bad Raid all the civilians ran out of the gates instead of down the air raid shelters, and all were killed.
Before I knew all the rules of the Fighter Station,
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