I well remember, back in the 1970s, reading through a CP magazine and coming across a story that purported to be true of an incident during the Second World War where a young member of the Womens’ Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was punished by caning for some serious breach of regulations. The story mentioned that a cane had to be flown out specially from UK for the punishment to take place.
More recently, I have attempted to determine whether there ever was any truth in the story and I am extremely grateful to those people who so kindly responded to my advertisement asking for further information. This has led to further stories of girls serving in the other female branches of the armed forces also having been caned.