The Driving Force : Memoirs of Wartime WAAF Drivers 1665 HTU and 81 OTU

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 135pp, b&w plates, A little wear/creasing to edges of dw, board edges lightly worn, pencilled notes on rear fep and pastedown. A good copy. Driving lorries through blizzards and n blacked-out airfields while Stirlings, Halifaxes, Whitleys etc with masked lights land and sometimes crash around you, can't ve anyone's idea of fun. But such momeents are the stuff of eminiscences in thisk book which makes a valuable contribution to a part of WWII history. It is a cllection of the memoires of leading aircraft women of the WAAF, and of others who worked alongside them. The women "drove anything and everything on wheels at any time and anywhere" and in the most difficukt and perilous conditions. Here are accounrts, together with photos and cartoons, of their exploits and experiences, their best and worst moments, the drudgery and the inomparable comradeship of war.