Description
Mrs. Harvey talks about the trend of painting hats and what she did differently.
Pansey Harvey
Pansey June Harvey was born in London, England. In 1920, she came to Canada when she was four years old. When she was seventeen she enlisted and was sent to training camp two weeks later. Pansey served with the Womens Auxiliary Air Force - Royal Air Force as bomber/fighter command and in the hospital as an administrator. After the war she returned to Canada where she was married and had three daughters.
Transcript
There was a craze on, everybody painting their tin hats. And of course, I got the bright idea, if I was to paint a bright blue swastika on the top of my tin hat, if a German plane come over, he wouldn’t machine gun me. Wow, that didn’t go down very well. Didn’t go down at all. So I was put on a charge, and I had to work in the cook house for ten days scrubbing pots and pans, but that taught me a lesson right then and there.