Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Biography & Autobiography
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A sensitively written true story by a RAF Bomber Command wartime R/T operator who talked down the crews on their return from operations, met them off duty and so often mourned their loss within days. The book sparkles with humour yet has a very special poignancy. The author talks of her “deep admiration for the men of bomber command who carried the fight to the enemy when no one else could.”Pip Beck volunteered for the WAAF in 1941 and was posted to RAF Waddington, one of the bomber stations, where she was trained as a R/T operator. In 1943 she went to Bardney, Lincs, where she applied to remuster as Radar Mechanic (Air) to satisfy her desire to fly, but her mathematics failed her. She then took a wireless operator’s course and was transferred to Upper Heyford, Oxon, where she spent the last two years of the war.
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