num_pages: 272
description: For thirty years Eileen was forbidden to speak about her wartime activities. This is the full uncut story of the Filter Room for the first time! Discover top secrets of Britain's wartime Radar network and read about Eileen's time in Nazi Germany. Find out how she ridiculed Hitler's SS Guards and relive her evacuation from Bonn when war broke out. Follow her journey as she hunts V2 rocket launchers in Belgium making life or death decisions on a daily basis. Learn how she became a guide in a liberated concentration camp.Ninety-year-old Eileen Younghusband served as an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in WW2. Deciding to volunteer at the age of eighteen her mathematical abilities lead to her training as a Clerk Special Duties a vital part of the Radar chain. She found herself working in the Filter Room the lynchpin between the coastal Radar Chain and the successful defence of Britain. She tracked the V1s over Kent and London and gave the first Big Ben warning of a V2 which landed on Chiswick on September 8th 1944.After losing two fiancs she eventually married; only to be posted oversees six weeks later to Second Tactical Air Force in Belgium. There she became part of a team tracking and destroying V2 launching vehicles responsible for the devastating raids on Antwerp - the Allies' vital port for landing troops and supplies.
language: English
title: One Woman's War
publisher: Candy Jar Books