Speaker Meeting - Eileen Younghusband BEM
Mon, Jul 27th 2015 at 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm
The Filter Room - In Defence of Britain
Eileen Younghusband, BEM (née Le Croissette; born in London 4 July 1921) served in the WAAF during World War II in 1944.[1] and received the initial coded message “Big Ben”, alerting allied forces to the first V-2 rocket launched against London.
Younghusband, adept at French and German, also had a talent for maths. This was used to great effect during her time in the Filter Rooms of Fighter Command during the war in which together with a team of fellow WAAF officers, she was responsible for assessing the information gleaned from Radar’s Chain Home (CH) coastal stations, estimating position, height and number of enemy forces in the air - essential for establishing Britain's defence network and giving air raid warnings.
These teams had a matter of seconds to calculate accurately the whereabouts of both friendly and enemy aircraft. This vital information was essential since at the time of the Battle of Britain, the RAF had a limited number of fighter aircraft and trained pilots, and limited supplies of fuel.
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