The comments didn’t since in, and the following month (March
1943), she taxied a Tiger Moth into an oil bowser, and was held
responsible for 'taxiing without due care'.
The final straw was a charge for drinking during an unauthorised
period with her husband, alongside insubordination. For this, they
were both dismissed in January 1945.
Following this, the couple moved back to America, and had two
more children. Subsequently they moved to Nassau in the
Bahamas where Edwin flew for the local airline and Ruth started a
company called Bahama Engines. In their retirement they had a
yacht brokerage and a diving supply business. Ethel learned to
scuba dive in her 60s.
She died in 2011 aged 98.