Constance Babington Smith

**Constance Babington Smith** MBE, FRSL (15 Oktoba 1912 &#x2013; 31 Yuli 2000) 'Yar jarida ce kuma marubuciya 'yar Birtaniya, amma wataƙila an fi saninta da aikinta na lokacin yaƙi a fannin fasahar zane-zane .

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Constance Babington Smith a ranar 15 ga Oktoba, 1912 a Beech Law, Puttenham, Surrey. Ita 'yar babban ma'aikacin gwamnati ce Sir Henry Babington Smith, ɗan gidan dangin Babington .  Mahaifiyarta, wacce aka haifa a matsayin Lady Elizabeth Bruce, ita ce babbar 'yar Earl na 9 na Elgin, wanda hakan ya sa Constance jikanyar wani Viceroy na Indiya  kuma jikanyar mutumin da ya sayi Elgin Marbles . Constance ta fito daga babban iyali kuma ita ce ta bakwai cikin 'ya'ya tara. Mahaifinta ya mutu a shekarar 1923, lokacin tana da shekaru goma.  A lokacin, manyan 'yan uwanta sun riga sun girma, yayin da ƙanwarta ke da shekaru biyu kacal. 

Ta yi karatu a gida a gidan danginta 'Chinthurst', a Wonersh da ke Surrey . Ta kammala karatunta a Faransa sannan ta koma Landan a lokacin da ta girma. Ta yi aiki a matsayin mai horar da injin niƙa, ta yi aiki a ƙungiyar injin niƙa mai suna Aage Thaarup kafin yaƙin  da kuma mujallar  da ke Landan,

Lokacin da mahaifiyarta Elizabeth ta yi rashin lafiya a shekarun 1930, Constance Babington Smith ta ƙaura zuwa Weybridge don kula da ita, wani matsayi da ake sa ran 'yar da ba ta da aure a cikin iyali za ta taka. Filin jirgin sama na Brooklands yana kusa kuma ta fara kallon tseren motoci da jiragen sama a wurin a matsayin abin da zai ɗauke mata hankali daga ayyukanta na gida. Wannan ya sa mutane suka fara sha'awar harkokin jiragen sama. A ranar 23 ga Disamba, 1936, ta shiga aikin jarida ta hanyar rubuta labarinta na farko a matsayin 'Babs' ga mujallar *The Aeroplane* . 

## Aikin yaƙi
Sanin da ta yi game da jiragen sama ya kai ta ga Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Mata da kuma bayanan sirri a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu . A watan Disamba na 1940, Babington Smith tana cikin rukuni na biyar na WAAFs waɗanda aka horar da su kan fassarar daukar hoto a babban sashin ci gaban daukar hoto na sirri, waɗanda suka cancanta tare da Eve Holiday, da Ann McKnight Kauffer ('yar mai zane Edward McKnight Kauffer ), wacce da farko take zaune a Paduoc House, Wembley. Daga baya ta yi aiki tare da Sarah Oliver ('yar Winston Churchill ).  

Babington Smith ta ƙirƙiri rahotonta na musamman game da jiragen saman Italiya wanda ya burge Shugaban Rundunar Sojanta.  Aikin fassara hotunan ya mayar da hankali ne kan jiragen ruwa amma ƙwarewarta da jiragen sama ya sa aka nemi ta a farkon 1941 da ta kafa sashen gane jiragen sama. Ba sabon abu ba ne ga jami'in WAAF ya jagoranci sashinta ba tare da jami'in RAF tare da shi ba. Wata abokiyar aikinta a can, Ursula Powys-Lybbe, daga baya ta rubuta cewa " *Babs tana da isasshen ƙarfin hali, rashin manufa mai ban mamaki tare da sadaukar da kai ga aikin, ya haɗu da ɗan ƙudurin da ake buƙata don samun damar ɗaukar nauyin sabon sashin* "  Rundunar ta ƙaura daga Landan bayan hare-hare da yawa kuma ta yi aiki tare da Sashen Fassara na Tsakiya (CIU) a RAF Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, inda ta kai matsayin Jami'in Jirgin Sama . Ɗan'uwanta, Bernard Babington Smith (1905-1993), wanda shi ma mai fassara hoto ne (PI) a Medmenham kuma shugaban Sashen Hotunan Dare.   

A shekarar 1942 ta fito a wani fim mai suna *Target for Tonight*, tare da abokin aikinta na Medmenham, Sqn Ldr Peter Riddell, kuma an ambaci ta a cikin Dispatches saboda aikinta. 

A lokacin da take aiki kan fassarar hotunan leƙen asiri na sama, Constance ta sami yabo kan gano V1 a Peenemünde, Jamus, wanda ya fara gano shi a lokacin bazara na 1943 tare da cikakken tabbaci a watan Disamba 1943. Ta ƙalubalanci ra'ayoyinta da kuma watsi da fassarar 'wuraren wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara' ta sashen masana'antu a Medmenham kuma ta yi aiki don tabbatar da cewa a zahiri su ne wuraren harba makami na V1. An gano ramuka 96 kuma daga baya ƙawayenta suka lalata su. [1] [2]

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