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THE WAAC STORY - REVIEW - Book review of The WAAC Story
This is the story of the New Zealand Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Rather than writing this book from a 3rd person perspective, what Iris Latham has done has been to compile a lot of storeys recounted by the WAAC’s themselves and arraigned them in roughly chronological order. In Between these stories Iris Latham has added sections that gradually tell the history of how the NZ WAAC was formed. She starts by telling us of the various organisations that were predecessors to the Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Some of the Women that served in these organisations even served overseas in "Forces Clubs" or on hospital ships and hospitals. They in their own words tell of their experiences. The various WAAC’s that contributed to the book tell of their experiences both bad and good, some even hilarious. One WAAC tells of working at a Vehicle Reception Depot and driving all manner of trucks from the car assembly plants in Seaview. She even remembers driving some trucks that were incomplete and having no cab used board and a crate for a seat. Many who worked in these depots had only driven cars and learned "on the job" - by trial and error on their own sometimes (Try that now-a-days with our laws today!) This book is not so much about the places as it is about the people - people who were just ordinary housewives, seamstresses etc before the war many of who volunteered to "do their bit".
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