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Title
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Turner, Betty
B Turner
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Description
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Four items. The collection consists of an oral history interview with Betty Turner, (– 2015, 2146029), a photograph and two poems. Leading aircraftswoman Betty Turner served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force at 92 Group Headquarters as a wireless operator. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Betty Turner and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Date
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2015-06-02
Identifier
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Turner, B
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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[inserted] This is why I joined [underlined] RAF [/underlined] Dec 1942 [/inserted]
He was twenty-two I was seventeen
I thought he was lovely &
he seemed very keen
But he was a bomber pilot
didn’t stand a chance
when singled out by fighters
shot down over France
That evening, as usual, I waited
His friend came instead
I sobbed as he told me
my lovely friend was dead
Since then I’ve loved a dozen times
But first love’s so sincere,
Remember him? Of course I do,
Especially this time of year.
After this happened within days I joined the RAF and after training at Compton Bassett, became a wireless operator. Very boring listening in to signals writing down pages of groups of letters. Found out many years later, some of which we wrote down went to Bletchley Park to help break the German secret code.
Betty Turner (nee Baldock)
Aylesbury
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Title
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This is why I joined the RAF
Description
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A poem written in December 1942 after her first love was shot down over France. After his death Betty resolved to join the Royal Air Force and became a wireless operator. According to a note, she later found out that some of what she wrote down went to Bletchley Park to help break the German secret code.
Creator
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Betty Turner
Date
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1942-12
Format
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One typewritten sheet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Poetry
Identifier
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MTurnerBM2146029-170131-03
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Contributor
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Cathie Hewitt
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
arts and crafts
grief
ground personnel
love and romance
military ethos
RAF Compton Bassett
recruitment
shot down
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force