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In 1942/3 I was in Bath during a blitz. We were in a WAAFery that was three miles from the main station. On the night of the blitz we were dive-bombed and a tannoy announcement declared that all female staff should dive under the beds. We heard planes and bullets coming over the rooftops and people in the cottages opposite ducked inside for shelter. The bombing continued all night and we weren't allowed into Bath the following day to survey the devastation.

After Bath I was stationed in Glasgow. Planes were more sophisticated by this time and I was made redundant as an aircraft worker so I transferred to balloons instead. We repaired balloons that had been shot down all over the UK. When they arrived we inflated them and someone went inside with an inspection lamp to find the hole that needed repair. I worked in this field from the beginning of 1944 until the end of the war.

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