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Edna Hicks: Working in Wartime

Edna Hicks remembers why her first job in a department store came to a swift end.

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Edna Hicks: "Crawfie."

Edna Hicks describes her second husband, another World War II pilot named Crawford Hicks.

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Edna Hicks: Military Spouse

Edna Hicks lists the military bases she lived on after her marriage to American pilot Jerry Davis.

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Edna Hicks: "I flew to the States to marry him."

Edna Hicks describes how she immigrated to the United States to marry her first husband, an American pilot named Jerry Davis.

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Edna Hicks: An American Pilot

Edna Hicks describes how she met her first husband, Jerry Davis, after getting a new job in the officer's club on an American military base.

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Edna Hicks: The Post Exchange

Edna Hicks describes how she got a job working at a post exchange or PX on an American military base after the war.

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Edna Hicks: Postwar England

Edna Hicks describes the shortage of supplies in England after the war.

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Edna Hicks: "Our task, their monument."

Edna Hicks reads a poem written anonymously as a tribute to pilots in the Royal Air Force.

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Edna Hicks: VE Day

Edna Hicks remembers the celebrations in her neighborhood when the war in Europe ended.

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Edna Hicks: "Young men in beautiful uniforms."

Edna Hicks remembers an encounter with two American soldiers in London.

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Edna Hicks: America

Edna Hicks remembers what the idea of America meant to her as a young person.

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Edna Hicks: "Huge glass windows."

Edna Hicks remembers her work as a window dresser in a toy shop as the war was coming to an end.

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Edna Hicks: The V-1 Flying bomb

Edna Hicks recalls the threat of Germany's V-1 bombs in 1944 and 1945.

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Edna Hicks: School Shelters

Edna Hicks remembers the bomb shelters for students in different grade levels at her school.

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Edna Hicks: "They whined as they came down."

Edna Hicks recalls the sounds of bombs as they fell.

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Edna Hicks: "Direct hit!"

Edna Hicks describes her father's work in London during World War II.

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