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At almost the end of the War Mom was one of the young women trained to transport aircraft from the factories to the airfields. She only did it for about eight months, but that allows me to boast that she flew bombers in WW2! Lancasters.Crazily enough, this was not something she talked about much. In fact it wasn’t until I was sixteen that a local news station reported on the natural death of one of the other “girls”. Watching the news Dad piped up “You did that, didn’t you Nowshe!” I was suitably blown away. “Nowshe” was her lifelong nickname, born when her baby brother, my Uncle Ivan, couldn’t pronounce “Nelsie”. (The RAF had begun this program because they didn’t want to “waste” male pilots on such a mundane task.)
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