Eileen Schwenk enlisted with the Women’s Royal Naval Service not long after the start of the Second World War. She was stationed in South Hampton, where she sorted and delivered mail to the ships that docked in the harbour. During the preparations for D-Day, she distinctly remembers hearing the troops being moved onto the ships. She met her husband, who served with the Royal Navy, and throughout the war they wrote letters back and forth. They married two months after VE Day.
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