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Article: Antoinette M. Fleming, World War II veteran, served in British Army branch
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- April 27, 2007
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QUINCY - Antoinette M. (Gatens) Fleming was in the thick of things
for the British Army during World War II. But like a lot of women of
that generation, her work for the Allied war effort went largely
unheralded.
Mrs. Fleming was a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service
(ATS) in England when it became the official women's branch of the
British Army during the war, her son, Robert Fleming Jr. of Quincy,
said.
Stationed in a bunker on a commandeered private estate, she was in
charge of plotting coordinates of enemy bombers and contacting
British and American pilots about their locations, her son said.
"She was in the service without being in service," he said. "And
she was proud of being ...