At
the eleventh hour they unravel the truth. Both girls have a date with the
same airman! Basher being the earlier of the two. It turns into a week-end
of tears, frustration and mild violence on the part of the other WAAF.
Basher intends ending her engagement because of her high moral code, but
this causes a terrible argument with her father. The girl who shared her
room in the YWCA wins her man, her advantage is she works with him.
Finally June meets a soldier early in 1945, and marries within months of
meeting him. She becomes pregnant purposely in order to leave the forces
planning to join him. He is a regular soldier and at that stage the war
looked like imminently coming to an end. Basher is intimidated by her
father who organises her wedding without her knowledge, telling her when
all the plans are laid. She is too frightened to call it all off, so much
has gone into the planning. Food coupons and clothing coupons have been
borrowed in order to ensure the best for his daughter, but Basher simply
cannot hurt him, despite her misgivings about her feelings toward her
fiancee, and her anger at her father for interfering in her life.
She finally leaves RAF Breighton at the beginning of August 1945.
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