256618 LACW. Joyce Todd Womens Auxiliary Air Force I joined in Sept 1942 and went to Insworth Camp Gloucester for Square Bashing then on to Cardington for training as Barrage Balloon Operator.
My balloon posting was Yeovil, Somerset for about 1 year until there were enough men to take over.
I then went to RAF Weeton to retrain as a motor mechanic, then posted to Stanmore.
While there, one of the men in the workshops pestered me to write to his brother-in-law Tom who was serving in Italy. He eventually wore me down and I began writing. We wrote and got to know each other and when the war finished we met up in London and he asked me to marry him the first time met. We married on the 4th Jan 1947 and remained married until his death in January 2005.
Joyce Todd.
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