I had a remarkable meeting today, Friday 11 August, with my Aunt Hazel who is just short of her 90th birthday. It concerned, among other things, her service in the WAAF in the second world war and she bought out many treasured documents and photos. Among the most astonishing of these was a map of a route she flew in a Lancaster bomber shortly after the end of the war on, I think, 19 July 1945. I was a month old at the time.
She has a map of the route taken signed by the pilot, and the places she flew over included Antwerp, Aachen, Cologne, Arnhem, and Amsterdam. She saw first hand the destruction in many of these places and I attach one of the photograph she treasures showing the centre of Cologne. The cathedral is visible but almost nothing else. You are looking at a genuine photograph of the time taken by bomber command.
Aunt Hazel pointed out also that she's the original Sergeant Pepper of the Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album released by The Beatles on 1 June 1967 - their eighth album! Her maiden name was Pepper, and during the war she was a sergeant. She's very proud of that fact.
AS
She has a map of the route taken signed by the pilot, and the places she flew over included Antwerp, Aachen, Cologne, Arnhem, and Amsterdam. She saw first hand the destruction in many of these places and I attach one of the photograph she treasures showing the centre of Cologne. The cathedral is visible but almost nothing else. You are looking at a genuine photograph of the time taken by bomber command.
Aunt Hazel pointed out also that she's the original Sergeant Pepper of the Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album released by The Beatles on 1 June 1967 - their eighth album! Her maiden name was Pepper, and during the war she was a sergeant. She's very proud of that fact.
AS
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