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Kathleen Reid worked in a reserved occupation but wanted to join the RAF as a WAAF. She was, initially, trained as a telephonist but re-mustered to flight control. Duty meant staying all night in the tower to guide flights home. Then they would…

Bernard can remember seeing much of the bomber action with the aircraft almost turning the sky black as they all left to participate in the ops over Occupied Europe. Bernard recounts how the RAF personnel were made welcome and well respected in…

Annie (Mary) Blood served as a WAAF and was based at 12 Group stationed at RAF Kirton in Lindsey, where she was a permanent staff member, at the end of 1942. She was a junior NCO in charge of the airmen’s mess, and her duties included running rotas,…

Les joined the RAF in 1938 and was posted to RAF Eastchurch to learn his trade as an armourer. Once qualified he worked with the Fairey Battle and Bristol Beaufort, among others. Subsequently, he worked with Meteors, Hawker Hunters and the…

Anne was born in 1938 in London at six months old was evacuated to live with her grandparents in South Wales. During the war, her father was in the rifle brigade and her mother worked in a munitions factory. Anne would complete chores in order to…