Interview with Barbara Taptiklis

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British officer served with Women's Auxiliary Air Force in GB and United States of America, 1939-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Liverpool, GB, 1916-1939: family; education. Recollections of period as section officer with Women's Auxiliary Air Force, GB, 1939-1941: joining Women's Auxiliary Air Force; posting to Headington Hill Hall, near Oxford; requesting place on cypher course; cypher training received; posting to RAF Pembroke Dock; posting to Cypher Department of Air Ministry, London, 1940; description of office; German Air Force raids; volunteering for overseas service; meeting Pilot Officer Anthony Wedgwood Benn. REEL 2 Continues: cypher work; interviews and selection for posting to United States of America; uniform; voyage from GB to United States of America, 1941. Recollections of period as officer with Women's Auxiliary Air Force in United States of America, 1941-1943: posting to Washington DC; uniform; pay; British personnel serving in Washington; work in Air Ministry building; weather conditions; social life; contrast of life in United States of America with GB; visit by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Washington DC. REEL 3 Continues: question of racial segregation in United States of America; promotion and posting to New York, 7/1943; meeting future husband, Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Nicolas Taptiklis of the Royal Hellenic Navy, 7/1943; impact of meeting Nicolas Taptiklis on her work; obtaining permission to marry; wedding; experience of class distinction at HMS Asbury, Asbury Park; wedding in Greek Orthodox Church; obtaining marriage license; sexual mores during wartime. REEL 4 Continues: parting from husband Nicolas Taptiklis. Recollections of period as officer with Women's Auxiliary Air Force, GB, 1943-1945: return to GB; impressions of GB on return; reunion with husband Nicolas Taptiklis in Scotland; posting to RAF Banff; deaths of Royal Air Force aircrew; posting to Teddington; attitudes of Royal Navy compared with Royal Air Force; decision to emigrate to New Zealand, 1947; husband Nicolas Taptiklis's post-war work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); question of recognition of work of Women's Auxiliary Air Force during Second World War; work of sister Peggy Keech with Y Service; Women's Auxiliary Air Force cypher work.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Smith, Lyn E (Recorder)
Taptiklis, Barbara Jean Dorothy (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2002-09-10
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 23831

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