Our Mornings May Never Be: Memoirs of a WAAF Sergeant . and Beyond

Lisa M. Rohlmann is a former business owner in Shelburne, Ontario.

Joan MacDonald, a freelance writer with several children’s books to
her credit, was born in England but immigrated to Quebec as a war bride
shortly after World War II. Our Mornings May Never Be is a story of
courage, love, and patriotism that makes an important contribution to
war history while giving expression to the indomitable human spirit.

At 19, Joan joined the war effort as a teletypist with the WAAF
(Women’s Auxiliary of the Air Force) based on Spalding Moor in
England. Each night, pilots took off with their bomb loads; by morning,
several had not returned. Young, pretty and smart, Joan caught the eye
of Mac, a handsome Canadian bomber pilot whom she later married. At the
end of the war, Mac was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and then
ordered back to Canada. Joan, along with their first-born child, joined
him a year later. Life in Canada was good until 1989, when Mac was
afflicted with a rare disease. He fought back with typical
determination.

Included in the book’s appendixes are reprints of leaflets that were
dropped over Germany during the war’s final inning.