My.
My husband to be.
We were friends at the time,
And he joined the navy and others joined
the army and in fact had been at Normandy,
although he was very young.
I mean, he, he'd have been 20.
And my friends, lovely, wonderful hero.
He had died.
He was flying
the great aeroplane which went out over
the Atlantic to try and locate
the submarines.
And I think he'd been shot down.
All was lost at sea.
And we were influenced at that,
I mean, it was like a religious
It was, you know, the fact that you
realise that people were fighting for you.
And I think I wanted to be part of that.
I think I probably
at school, I can't remember which, but
And then I joined the WAAF.
I was very patriotic.
Well, the vast majority of people
In 1939, there were people
Lord Halifax, they tried
He did his best to try to delay war.
And I remember his speech,
But now it was a case that I
and my friends, really.
One of them joined the navy, one joined
One of them was a bomber
A boy, to be a gunner in a Lancaster.
But he survived and never
As a matter of fact, I had a letter from
some boys who, through all this publicity
have seen me on television, I think,
about it and said that I
in St Albans and I had a group of people
in 4H and 5H and they've sent me wonderful
flowers and one of them said
you never mentioned the fact that you'd
or that you'd been serving and I
suppose we didn't really, but.
But it was that wonderful sense of
patriotism that has a sadness about it.
You know, when he knew people who died.
But that's war.
War is a horrible thing.
I mean, I didn't join up
thinking, oh, war is brilliant and aren't
I, I'm going to be brave and so on.
I didn't think of that at all.
But I did want to do my bit as a,
you know, an 18 year old
who doesn't really understand.
I did understand, really.
But you don't understand that much.
