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"I joined the war effort as a WAAF in 1942. I started on general duties and then got promoted to special duties at Bentley Priory, handling intelligence. My father used to moan why the Allies weren’t doing this or that and I used to have to keep quiet. I remember one night we were extremely busy, all the top brass had arrived, this time I didn’t know what was going on. It turned out this was the night they discovered the V2 sites at Peenemunde.

I remember we had Glenn Miller there to do a concert, it may have been the 5th Anniversary of the WAAF’s. On V.E day I went up to London and celebrated."

This story was submitted to the People's War website by Steve Turner a Peoples War Story gatherer with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cambridgeshire Action Desk. It was submitted at Duxford Museum during their VE celebrations on behalf of Mary Hulse and has been added to the site with her permission.

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