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her plane to practice identifying her range and direction using their listening equipment and pick her out with their searchlights. It was known as Army
Cooperation flying. The work was cold and initially she was unable to find a wireless operator to fly with her. Eventually one man proved amenable to flying with a female pilot. After that she had other willing crewmen. Her logbook was checked and signed every month by Pauline Gower.
147:. Age six her mother took her and her sister, who suffered from tuberculosis, to live in Paris. Friedlander went to school in Vienna, Switzerland and Germany, only returned to live in Britain age seventeen. She attended the LSE and took a secretarial course, which led to secretarial jobs. Age 21, she went to America as a secretary to a friend of her father. On her return, a friend took her to
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