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The Womens Junior Aircorps

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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.

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