As we were: the lives, loves and memories of those who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force
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Bognor Regis
Woodfield Publ.
2004
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
Beschreibung: | XIII, 166 S. Ill. 21 cm |
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adam_text | Contents
Foreword
...........................................................................................
vii
About the Editor
...............................................................................viii
Acknowledgements
...............................................................................ix
References
............................................................................................
x
Preface
................................................................................................xi
1.
At Work
....................................................................................1
The poster that lured us
................................................................................................1
In the beginning
.............................................................................................................3
Billeted in the Workhouse
.............................................................................................7
The Parachute Packers
................................................................................................10
If you can stand the first fortnight
..............................................................................16
WAAF Friendships
........................................................................................................18
What would we have done without the NAAFI?
.........................................................21
The Jankers Queen
......................................................................................................22
The Filter Room
............................................................................................................25
A Plotter at Uxbridge
....................................................................................................29
Impressions of Operations
..........................................................................................31
A Cook s Tour
................................................................................................................33
Like Jankers Every Day
................................................................................................35
Memories of Dyce
&
Aberdeen
...................................................................................38
A Batwoman at War
.....................................................................................................40
Serving with the Dambusters
......................................................................................42
Once and Forever
.........................................................................................................45
From Oily Rag to Flight Mechanic
...............................................................................46
A Grease Monkey Remembers
.................................................................................47
My War as a Flight
Mech
.............................................................................................48
A Fitter s Tale
................................................................................................................51
How come?
...................................................................................................................54
A Physio in the WAAF
...................................................................................................55
A Dicey Drive
.................................................................................................................56
Fond Memories of Orkney
...........................................................................................57
Work at Station Sick Quarters
.....................................................................................60
A Waaf at Bletchley Park
.............................................................................................62
Too Much Information
..................................................................................................64
The First Night of the Blitz
...........................................................................................65
Blown Out of Bed
.........................................................................................................67
A Pigeon Keeper s Tale
................................................................................................68
The Pigeon Farm at RAF Waddington
.......................................................................71
An MT Mechanic s Tale
................................................................................................72
The Glamorous Life of the WAAF
..............................................................................77
Missing
..........................................................................................................................78
The Balloon Girls
..........................................................................................................79
Memories of a Balloon Operator
.................................................................................80
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v
-
Dusk
Take-Off, 1940....................................................................................................84
OnYerBike
...................................................................................................................85
I Was Hit by a Doodle-Bug
...........................................................................................87
So Was 1
........................................................................................................................87
Tragedy in the Fog
........................................................................................................89
Admin wasn t all Drill and Discipline
........................................................................91
AFaiseAiarm
................................................................................................................99
The Biter Bit!
..............................................................................................................100
The Tale of a Clerk/GD
..............................................................................................101
Plotting the ships
......................................................................................................104
A Shift to Remember
................................................................................................105
An Innocent Abroad
..................................................................................................106
D-Day at Croydon
........................................................................................................107
2.
Off Duty
...............................................................................109
The Wymeswold Dance Band
..................................................................................110
Those Wonderful WAAF Marching Bands
................................................................113
The Service Dance Bands
........................................................................................118
An artist in the WAAF
................................................................................................120
3.
Wartime Romance
................................................................125
A D-Day Marriage
......................................................................................................126
My Wartime Wedding
................................................................................................128
If You Can t Cook, Marry a Chef!
..............................................................................130
A Marriage that Nearly Wasn t
..................................................................................131
Wartime Love Knew No Borders
..............................................................................132
As One Waaf To Another
...........................................................................................134
4.
International relations
...........................................................135
Pour la patrie
.............................................................................................................136
The Polish WAAF
.........................................................................................................137
Serving with a PAF Squadron
...................................................................................139
America Honours a WAAF
.........................................................................................140
Posted to Palestine
....................................................................................................141
Serving with the American Air Force
........................................................................143
Long Ago and Far Away
.............................................................................................145
Overseas with 2nd
TAF
................................................................................................147
An Ode to the Yanks
............................................................................... .................152
5.
Tributes to the WAAF
...........................................................153
Ladies in Blue
.............................................................................................................157
6.
Awards to WAAF Personnel
...................................................159
I Remember
................................................................................................................161
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162
More books of interest from Woodfield
................................................163
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