The importance of oral history.
My mother-in-law Barbara who served throughout WW2 in the WAAF has just died aged 92 after a very short illness. For almost all her service she was stationed on frontline airfields and would often amuse me with little anecdotes about well known "personality" aircrew of those times as well as details of everyday life on various airfields. Some years ago whilst on a course a very pleasant female Wing Commander who was involved in an oral history project offered to have Barbara’s recollections recorded but of course there was “plenty of time” so the offer was put to one side for another day. Now of course there isn’t "another day" and her memories have been lost forever. So for the benefit of future generations and your own family please don’t make the same mistake I did, get those stories and memories recorded whilst there’s still time.