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Benjamin Vernon Kenny served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Read and listen to his testimony below.
Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Transcript
I was called into the air force and decided, I was in New Carlisle [Quebec]. I was in the railroad and they took me off of the railroad and to go in the air force. And I returned to the railroad after I come back. I was stationed in a place called, there’s a big air force base there. And half was for the women, for the WDs [Wireless Dispatchers], which those were in England. And I was there with men, looking after the record office, looking after where the air force was stationed in January. It was quiet. There was no air raids in there. I was stationed in London for a while and there was an air raid. But I wasn’t long in London and I was searching. I got married in year 1945, in England, yeah. She was in the same kind of duty, she’s looking after records for the…. I think I come home on the [RMS] Queen Mary, I think, it was a quick trip home. I think the Queen Mary was the ship I traveled on.
