Joyce Dunn

My name is Joyce Dunn, I was Joyce Salmon. I joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division in September of 1942, and was posted after basic training to Montreal wireless school, and became a wireless operator, ground, after six months. Then I was posted to St. Hubert, Quebec, in the wireless section. And after about three months, I became the only girl in the section. And I was teaching pilots how to use radio, which at the age of nineteen - I think somebody wondered how my mother let me leave home, because I looked younger - I was teaching the pilots, as the Sergeant in charge lived in Montreal and often wasn't able to work the next day. We changed stations from St. Hubert out to North Battleford, Saskatchewan. I was there for seventeen days, and got posted to Rivers, Manitoba, where I was Corporal in charge of one of the two ships that we had in the wireless section, working one week days, one week nights, which was very enjoyable. In the winter time we didn't always work. We'd get fogs in the winter, and I think we went for about three weeks without any work. I left the air force in March of 1945 when things were beginning to cool down, and moved to Quebec City. I enjoyed my time in the air force, and I think it did a lot for my self-confidence, and I certainly grew up in the service.