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Anne Robinson (Primary Source)

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Anne Robinson served in the Air Force during the Second World War. Read and listen to Anne Robinson’s testimony below.

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Photo of The 1943 Pot Pourri. Anne is pictured on the middle step.
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Anne Robinson on her wedding day.
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Anne playing softball in Saskatchewan, 1942.
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Anne at Comox with a DC3 Aircraft in 1945.
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Portrait of Sergeant Anne Hellyer, 1943.
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So I started a little fire down in front for burning and I just kept going. Just kept, anything that came up, any communication, anything, I just threw it on this little fire, started my burning.

Transcript

I joined the Air Force because quite a few of my family were flyers. We had seven aircraft and I was in charge of them. [When the war ended] we got orders to destroy every communication and everything. So I started a little fire down in front for burning and I just kept going. Just kept, anything that came up, any communication, anything, I just threw it on this little fire, started my burning. I just thought of all the work I’d taken to make those records, the records of them flying out into the ocean and yeah, it was not nice. And I kept one picture. It was a picture of the DC-3 and I still got it. I wasn’t supposed to but I did.