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Object description
Humorous and observant ts memoir (20pp), written ca 2000, of her service with the WAAF (1941 -1945) covering firstly her training at Morecombe and Yatesbury as a radio location officer, and her subsequent posting to Hartland, Devon (c. June 1942), including details of the lurid discussions held by women in the camp during training and her relative inhibitions, comments on camp life at Hartland, where she was posted alongside Sarah Oliver, and then her retraining as a radar mechanic (c. 1943) at Shrewsbury, where she became a regular churchgoer and was confirmed wearing a white veil and her WAAF uniform. Later that same year, she was posted to No 83 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, at Wyton, Huntingdon, where she serviced the radar equipment on Lancasters and met her future husband, and finally to No 97 Squadron RAF Bomber Command at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, where she was once punished for riding her bicycle through an aircraft hanger.
Content description
Humorous and observant ts memoir (20pp), written ca 2000, of her service with the WAAF (1941 -1945) covering firstly her training at Morecombe and Yatesbury as a radio location officer, and her subsequent posting to Hartland, Devon (c. June 1942), including details of the lurid discussions held by women in the camp during training and her relative inhibitions, comments on camp life at Hartland, where she was posted alongside Sarah Oliver, and then her retraining as a radar mechanic (c. 1943) at Shrewsbury, where she became a regular churchgoer and was confirmed wearing a white veil and her WAAF uniform. Later that same year, she was posted to No 83 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, at Wyton, Huntingdon, where she serviced the radar equipment on Lancasters and met her future husband, and finally to No 97 Squadron RAF Bomber Command at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, where she was once punished for riding her bicycle through an aircraft hanger.
History note
Cataloguer EP
History note
Catalogue date 2007-04-24