Ronnie Bennett-Butcher, who joined the RAF as a teenager and worked as a mechanic on planes, was one of three women at Veterans Memorial Lodge who recalled their wartime experiences this week
As a teenage aircraft mechanic in the Second World War, Ronnie Bennett-Butcher had to go on test flights in whatever plane she worked on.
“There weren’t that many of us in the entire air force,” said Bennett-Butcher, whose family was Canadian but living in England. She was in the air force for the duration of the war and stayed on after it ended, becoming a drill instructor. She especially remembers one young man whom she had helped figure out what to do with his assets, all of which he wanted to give away.
Iona Kennedy’s wartime job was working as a radio operator based in Ontario, as well as being a member of the military police.
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