Elizabeth Kidd

Well, there was a war on and there was a lot of propaganda I suppose it was but yeah, what did you do during the war? I didn’t want to tell my grandchildren, nothing. So I guess that was why I joined. My mother was proud as punch. My dad was a little leery. And I was posted to Rivers, Manitoba and that was a navigation school [of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]. It was fun in the off-duty. My mother kept all the letters that I wrote to her while I was in the [Royal Canadian] Air Force [Women’s Division] and now I’ve got them and the tone of those letters was as if we didn’t do anything but dance. But it wasn’t quite that way. Well, there were all the wireless operator, whether it was a male or a female, it was essential. Because that’s how the navigators were trained was by taking their positions and so on and then they’d send it back to base. We were quite proud of our role in the scheme of things.