Corporal Lydia Alford; the Flying Nightingales

When I first heard the story of Corporal Lydia Alford it brought to mind Winston Churchill’s famous remark of 65 years ago. He said of WW2, that it was not a war of princes or chieftains, but of peoples and causes; a war fought by unknown heroes. For me, she typified the unknown heroes that Churchill was referring to.
Lydia Alford was the first of three women known as ‘the Flying Nightingales’ to land in a battle zone after D-Day. She was a nursing orderly in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F), and flew on the first RAF transport plane to evacuate the wounded from the Normandy battlefields.
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