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Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holdersand any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher.  \nAll external links were active at the time of publication unless otherwise stated and have been archived via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at [https://archive.org/web](https://archive.org/web)  \nDigital material and resources associated with this volume are available at [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461\\#resources](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461#resources)  \nInformation about any revised edition of this work will be provided at [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461)  \n[ISBN Paperback: 978-1-80511-566-3](ISBN Paperback: 978-1-80511-566-3)  \nISBN Hardback: 978-1-80511-567-0  \nISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-80511-568-7  \nISBN HTML: 978-1-80511-570-0  \nISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-80511-569-4  \nDOI: 10. 11647/OBP.0461  \nCover image: Norah Hodgkinson, 1941, W.W. Winter, Derby. A selection from Norah’s  \narchive, Alison Twells, 2025. Cover design: Jeevanjot Kaur Nagpal.  \n14. Glorious Letters from My Sweetheart  \nIn the ‘Monthly Accounts’ section at the back of her diary, Norah listed Letters Received, with ticks in a second column denoting her reply. While in June and July 1942, she received letters from Jim and Norman as well as from Danny, by August through to the end of the year, Danny was her sole correspondent.  \n‘Seems like poor old Norman got the message’. My mum looks down-hearted.‘But what happened to Danny’s letters?’  \nMy mum remembers dusting Norah’s room as a ten-or eleven-yearold in the early 1950s and picking a letter from the front of a dressing table drawer that was slightly ajar. She slid it from its envelope, unfolded the thin paper, noted Danny’s signature and hurriedly put it back. There was a whole stash of them. At some point, Norah clearly felt that the time had come to remove the letters from their prime position in her life, a daily reminder of what might have been. We agree that she must have destroyed them, but we are no closer to knowing why or when.  \nAnd of course, Norah’s letters to Danny are missing too. What did she tell him during that summer of 1942? We can’t know for certain, of course, but her diaries allow us to make a pretty good guess. Norah will have certainly told Danny about joining the WJACs, the Castle Donington branch of the Women’s Junior Air Corps, formed in May 1942. Known asthe Jacks, they had existed at the national level since 1939 and, like the Girls Training Corps (1941) and Girls Nautical Training Corps (1942), aimed to prepare young women for the services, in this case, the WAAF. Meeting twice weekly at the Church School, the Donington group varied their activities between games of rounders, country dancing and war-related classes: aircraft recognition, squad drill, first aid and morse code, which saw a local lad, known as Billy Blo","cbCaisTg5a5v8Wvh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisTg5a5v8Wvh","pdf",553747,"English","# Glorious Letters from My Sweetheart\n## Letters received and replies\n## Missing letters and diary reconstruction\n## WJACs training and community life\n## Wartime events and bombing on 27 July 1942","[{\"question\":\"Why are Norah’s letters to Danny missing?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative suggests Norah deliberately removed and destroyed the letters at some point, but the exact timing and motive remain unknown. 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