ABSTRACT
Nina Masel thought that a consequence of the intimate lives that young women led in the forces was that ‘conventional barriers and restraints are torn down and conversation gets down to bedrock’. She and her fellow WAAF plotters were unusually candid with each other about their situation:
We're all in the same boat and we're all after the same thing. So why kid each other? And what is this thing we're all after? Obviously, a man. Preferably an officer or a sergeant pilot. I should say that 85 per cent of our conversation is about men, dances (where we meet men), 15 per cent about domestic and shop matters and a negligible proportion on other matters. 1
