Pip Beck volunteered for the WAAF in 1941 and was posted to RAF Waddington, one of the bomber stations, where she was trained as a RT operator In 1943 she went to Bardney, Lincs, where she applied to remuster as Radar Mechanic (Air) to satisfy her desire to fly, but her mathematics failed her She then took a wireless operator's course and was transferred to Upper Heyford, Oxon, where she spent the last two years of the war