A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War. Moments of hilarity interspersed with impatience and frustration are recorded verbatim, along with an underlying sense of urgency about winning a war that hung in the balance for too long.
Written to the Dead of Women at Macdonald College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Mary Buch’s letters lay untouched for over fifty years after her return to Canada from England in 1945. Today they serve as a looking-glass into the War Years that is tinged with the freshness of youthful spontaneity and the promise of a brighter tomorrow.
Carolyn Gossage has interwoven colourful contextual sidebars that provide today’s reader with an overview of times and circumstances that have become increasingly elusive in the intervening years.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.54/8171
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1550022946 9781554882717
- LCCN
- D811
- LCCN Item number
- B82 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (171 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603108 (OCoLC)696033898 (CaOOCEL)410581
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- Preface 12
- PART ONE: Taking the King's Shilling February - April 1943 20
- PART TWO: Eastern Air Command, Halifax, N.S. April - July 1943 34
- PART THREE: Operations Training - RCAF Sea Plane Base, Dartmouth, N.S. July - November 1943 50
- PART FOUR: Overseas at Last November 1943 - January 1944 66
- PART FIVE: Lincolnshire Posting February - March 1944 94
- PART SIX: Settling In March - May 1944 110
- PART SEVEN: Notes from Nissen Hut May - August 1944 122
- PART EIGHT: From Pillar to Post September 1944 - July 1945 144
- Post Script 172
