A Court of enquiry
ensues, and believing Basher to be the 'bean spiller' her crew
send her to
Coventry
. She is devastated, and the last straw comes when Edie gets
posted and the two friends lose contact. Feeling isolated,
Basher requests a posting. Downhearted she sets off for her
new camp, but is overjoyed when she finds that Edie is part of
her new crew. The site is not without its dramas. The Corporal
is tossed over the kitchen roof and breaks her back. Balloons
are lost, and during a violent storm one of the balloons
breaks away and lands on the local railway line. The girls
have to explain why it took so long for the situation to be
brought under control. Edie divulges how they were forced to
wait for an hour before a WAAF officer arrived, and all
because she wanted to deflate the balloon with her knife!
Finally Basher's father, a serving RAF airman, who had written
to complain to Air Ministry about the starving WAAF's
on the
Sheffield
balloon sites, has an unusual encounter with a famous RAF VIP
whose name is revealed at the end of the final chapter along
with the result of the Court of enquiry findings. |
