A London waitress (asked how she got on during a raid the previous night) said: “Oh, I just tool) my pillow down with me and had a good snooze while Jerry was niggling about ‘upstairs’.” Marshal Goering should have heard the matter-of-fact way in which “niggling was used to describe his Luftwaffes operations. There was no scorn in it, nor any emphasis. It was just as near a scientific description of the performance “upstairs as this cool and efficient young woman could manage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 8
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