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Interview with Bessie Thomas

Bessie Thomas left school at the age of 14 and worked as a typist at the Consett Iron Company. At the age of 18, at the time of Dunkirk, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force where she wanted to be a radio operator but there were no vacancies. …

Tags: 150 Squadron; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); love and romance; military service conditions; radar; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF High Street; RAF Innsworth; RAF Snaith; RAF Yatesbury; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

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