The vast majority of the ATS victims were in their early twenties and it remains the biggest single loss of female life in the British Army.
The raid claimed the lives of a total of 49 service personnel and civilians. They emerged from the early morning mists over the sea on to drop bombs which claimed the lives of 26 young women - aged between 18 and 32 - who had joined the Army's Auxiliary Territorial Service only a few months earlier. She was one of the 26 women killed on May 11, 1943, when German planes dropped bombs on their billet in Great Yarmouth
Private Kathleen Gaunt, 19, is seen marching with fellow ATS recruits.
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