I wasn't very much affected by the war.
We listened to every news bulletin,
where we also listened to all
the national anthems of all our allies.
They meant a great deal, the fact
We thought so much,
eventually, of Mr. Churchill because
we looked upon him as the person
so that he,
nevertheless, my father particularly
thought so much of him that we all did.
During my teens,
14 or 15,
which was the girls equivalent
What was it, the ATC?
I've forgotten what it stands for.
And we had a very good captain.
And we also had a very good sergeant
who was a friend of mine, actually.
But we did our marching,
which I always loved complicated marching
and learnt the Morse code.
We learnt to recognise aeroplanes, both
our own and the enemy's, and learnt aid.
It was quite an important early trading.
I think really from there,
of aeroplanes, and particularly during
were amongst my heroes at the time.








