At the eleventh
hour they unravel the truth. Both girls have a date with the
same airman! Basher’s meeting being the earlier of the two.
It turns into a weekend 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 shares her
room in the YWCA wins her man. Her advantage being that 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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