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The Second World Battle is dominated by heroic stories of men defending their country against a formidable opponent, but how about the ladies who also played their parts in struggling for freedom? Eileen Younghusband was just 18 when she became a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Drive (WAAF). She quickly demonstrated her enthusiastic intellect and numerical skills, playing an essential role in Fighter Command's underground Filter Room. Working gruelling shifts under gigantic pressure, she and her companions performed tirelessly, monitoring the swarms of opponent plane that sought to break the British deal with. She even experienced the dubious honour of detecting the first of Hitler's disastrous V2 rockets as it dropped on an unsuspecting London.
