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Waiting on Airmen

I was 17 and working with the Observer Corps when I saw an RAF promotional film which showed WAAF's...

One WAAF's Involvement in D-Day

All the balloon sites used to telephone me in the morning and tell me how many gas cylinders they required....

Radar Operator

I also spent time in Scotland, the war ended whilst I was in Scotland and I remember being in Edinburgh on...

Big Brave Airforce Girl

This is an extract from a recording of Mrs Robbie Lovett made at the Hythe Library Reminiscence session on...

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Bevin Boys

He had two Identity Cards and three weeks before he was due to go in the Marines he received a letter to...

Life as a WAAF radar mechanic

They were trained mechanics and I became surplus to requirements, the WO a delightful redheaded Irishman...

Best Days of My Life

I remember one night a friend and I snuck out of the base in civvies and went to a pub... Technically the...

Move Aside Kate Winslet — Ere’s our Mona Audrey!

Mum was named Mona Audrey Wright and her tale is something real movies are made of. I do not know how the...

Cotswolds Memories

I lived in the Cotswolds during the war, and the only time we ever got bombed was when German planes...

Ingenious Mr Pitcher

Officer was posted to RAF Cark from Squiresgate, Blackpool... Mr Pitcher was an ingenious man and as they...

Learning the Tailor's Trade at RAF Hemswell

I was sent to work at Smiths in Drewry Lane, Derby at the age of 14. We had to have a letter...

W.A.A.F. R/T operator

There were three D.F. stations to one aerodrome and two operators to each station. On one occasion I was on...

Cooking for the RAF

She was Joan Frost, and was a cook/corporal in the WAAF on an aircrew ‘Feeder’. Mum was called...

Life in the WAAF

The WAAF site was in the middle of a wood near the village of Boolnetby away from main camp a few Nissan...

My Time as a Leading Aircrafts Woman

During the war my role was as a supplier for parachute droppers, dinghies, food, canned water etc. I worked...

Would you believe it?

So he went off and came back with a very dashing Army Officer to take us, he introduced the gorgeous young...

A Plotters Past

I was priveleged, as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, to work as a 'plotter' in a...

Princess Marina and the Apron Strings

At the time of this story, she was stationed at RAF Warmwell in Dorset, a station that was to be totally...

My Career with the WAAF

So I became a cartographer and draughtswoman, a man's job at that time and joined the 9th Group HQ...

Our Experiences by Roy and Doreen Joy

Roy Joy I was born in Wood Green and I went in the Army aged 17, Grenadier Guards... My father was in...

WAAF Memories

I was on nightime duty in communications and a message came through,'Hello Darky' 'Engine on...

Grace Westons Story: A WAAF in West Yorkshire

Both sets of Grandparents lived a mile and a half apart on Leeds Ring Road in Wortley West Yorkshire this...

Unauthorized Leave

I came out onto the main Yatesbury road and was lucky enough to get a hitch to Guildford,, where I got onto...

WAAF Teleprinter at H.Q.Bomber Command HQ.

We lived in Nissen huts a ten minute walk away through woods to get to nd from work, and our Canteen was...

Knitting

Work 56 rows of plain knitting on the remaining 72 stitches... Knit 2, purl 2 on these stitches for 12...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 4...remustering

In 1941 the Air Ministry decided to set up a WAAF Police Force to protect and deal with problems arising...