my mother, was called Winifred Byers.
She was born on the 15th of August 1920
at number 48,
when the war started, she applied to join
I don't know whether it was the uniform.
And and, of course, obviously,
But the powers that be decided
instead for her to put into A.V.
Roe Avro’s in Chadderton in Manchester.
she was a chaser.
And a chaser is somebody who works
between the drawing office
So anything that was drawn up
those drawings to the shop
milling machine or whatever,
And so she got to work and the Lancaster
with the tailfin and rudder section
and in fact, she said.
I always remember when we got the call
and she said,
And she said, and, and it was her role
that she did this specially was
a special
that held and Barnes
and also the parts the the
that rotated the bouncing bomb
after the success of the dams
she got to meet the remaining you know,
who came back to the Chadderton factory
And so as I say she and she was
she was absolutely thrilled about that.
And she told me that.
And she was also supposed
Gibson because he was also coming to say
But she said he was away.
She said in her words he was away on ops
And so she never got to see him,
But she said other people
to say thank you and in the factory
was and she said and
was was Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris
in charge of Bomber Command and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
And she also said that she got to meet
Barnes Wallace himself,
And so when anything and on the TV came on
to do with the Lancaster bomber,
but she used to go “That's mine!”
and she was always so very proud,
So and so that's the special story.
And in terms of, you know,
in, you know, in
