Lydia Alford, Myra Roberts and Edna Birkbeck evacuated injured WW2 soldiers, while coming under enemy fire.
Cpl Lydia Alford , and LACWs Myra Roberts and Edna Birkbeck , were the first three nursing orderlies of the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force to fly to France
Flying a week after D-Day, the three women delivered supplies and evacuated injured men, all while coming under enemy fire. Known as the Flying Nightingales, Cpl Alford and LACWs Roberts and Birkbeck were the first to leave RAF Blakehill Farm."While the freight was being unloaded I tried to make the wounded men as comfortable as possible in all that dust. I had water to give them and panniers of tea," she said.
LACW Birkbeck's daughters, Sian Gammond and Cherly Ridler, said their mother did not talk much about the war.
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