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Radio Girl - The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend (Paperback)
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Radio Girl - The story of the extraordinary Mrs Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend (Paperback)
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List price R636
Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
You Save R103 (16%)
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As you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney
harbor in 1944, you could hear rows of men and women in uniforms
and headsets tapping away vigorously at small machines, under the
careful watch of their young female trainers. Presiding over the
cacophony was a tiny woman, known to everyone as "Mrs Mac," one of
Australia's wartime legends. A smart girl from a poor mining town,
Violet McKenzie became an electrical engineer, a pioneer of radio,
and a businesswoman. As the clouds of war gathered in the 1930s,
she trained young women in Morse code, foreseeing that their
services would soon be needed. She was instrumental in getting
Australian women into the armed forces. Mrs Mac was adored by the
thousands of young women and men she trained, and she came to be
respected by the defense forces and the public too for her vision
and contribution to the war effort. David Dufty brings her story to
life in this heartwarming and captivating biography.
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