- Contributed byÌý
- HnWCSVActionDesk
- People in story:Ìý
- Violet Harris
- Location of story:Ìý
- Wiltshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4907928
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 10 August 2005
I volunteered for the WRAF at 17 and went to Wilmslow Cheshire for my training. I was then known as Leading Air Woman Critchley. I was then posted to Melcham Wiltshire. I was a cinema projectionist!
Let me explain… there were cameras on some of the planes. If the plane came back from a mission, I used to have to get the film out of the camera and develop it. Then we would show the film in the debriefing sessions.
They would be used for reconnaissance, for weather predictions and target accuracy.
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