taking on the enemy,
and not waiting to be properly refueled,
and taking off again,
of fuel, they'd ram the enemy aircraft.
Now my memory is the officer commanding,
who was in charge of the
getting the message on the
and saying, tell those (spits)
We have no airplanes,
We had more pilots than planes.
Refusing her mother’s wishes to study Domestic Science at a local college, Katherine Du Plat-Taylor instead joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She served as an Operations Clerk, stationed deep underground in the tunnels below Dover. One of her main responsibilities was to work with Air Sea Rescue, plotting the location of aircrafts on a table map in an operations room, saving the lives of hundreds of pilots.
Kent , United Kingdom
| Role Clerk SD |
The RAF? What's that?
Katherine Du Plat-Taylor
The Ops Room
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorMother was a bit miffed.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorThey were heroic women.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorWe were very unpopular with the rest of the WAAF.
Katherine Du Plat-Taylor
You'd wait to hear about the boy you'd been dancing with.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorMother lost her husband, her brothers and all her male cousins.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorHe had bullets but no rifles.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorI'm a rebel woman.
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorJust get out of Dover
Katherine Du Plat-TaylorGet up and put your trousers on.
Katherine Du Plat-Taylor
