大象传媒

tHIS is the story of one woman's war experiences. I joined the waaf in December 1941. It seemed to me that a lot of people were unde the impression that the women's services were just there to do domestic duties or occasionally to act as drivers. On the station I was on there were accounts officers ,cipher officers and my own designation was radar technical officer. I was recruited by C.P.Snow who toured the universities looking for people who were studying the sciences. I joined up in December 1941 and joined a course of a dozen or so young women of the same qualifications. We embarked on a course of some 9 months learning every aspect of the radar chain which surrounded our coasts. TRE Swanage was unfortunately bombed ,but all they hit was the cinema. As this took place about 6 a.m there was noone in the cinema but TRE was removed to Malvern. H aving completed the course we were then posted to the actual stations wher we would take up our duties. Some people elected to be posted to filter rooms where the information from the radar stations wasplotted and they were known as scientific observers. I myself preferred to remain in contact with the equipment and joined the operational research section at a wing headquarters. It was the job of both types to keep an eye on the prformanbce of individual radar stations and make sure they were up to scratch and if not to arrange that something was done about it.I hope this has done something to show that the women's services were not just cooks and bottle washers and that they contributed in many ways to ultimate victory

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