Dulwich, Surrey—13 June 1944 Summary

Lieutenant Mary Kent checks into Dulwich at the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry post. She first meets Lieutenant Fairchild, who ends up showing her around post. Mary is an historian that is there to study the women ambulance drivers. What Mary finds bizarre is that nobody seems to know about the VS-1 attacks. The major in charge of the post is away. When the other girls of FANY arrive, they have just come from a clothing exchange. Again, Mary remarks to herself how their talk seems to be so mundane when there has been a recent attack when the women ambulance drivers would have been very busy.

When the major returns to the post, she tells the girls to gather for an important announcement. Mary expects it to be about the combings. Instead, the Major announces that they'll...