Mary “Molly” Torrens was born July 28, 1923 in Milltownpass, Ireland.  She went to England when she was 15, so she was there when the war began in 1939.  Molly ended up getting involved in the war effort, joining the Women’s Royal Air Force when she was old enough.  Initially she was assigned one of the barrage balloon girls, tasked with protecting British cities from low-flying Luftwaffe aircraft, but that assignment ended with the advent of radar, which made the balloons redundant.  She was reassigned at that point, and took work in an aircraft factory, where she did her part in producing airplanes for the RAF’s air war.  Near the end of the war she took work in a dance hall, and it was there that she met her future husband Crawford, who was in the merchant marine during the war.  Being Protestant and Catholic they decided that life in Northern Ireland was not for them, so they emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto, where they raised their family and found their way in the postwar world.  Molly Torrens was interviewed by Scott Masters and Zach Dunn at her home in Pickering, Ontario in December 2024.