- Contributed by
- John_Haslam
- People in story:
- Kathleen Elaine Haslam nee Iddon
- Location of story:
- UK Home front. SE England
- Background to story:
- Army
- Article ID:
- A5119058
- Contributed on:
- 16 August 2005
My late mother served in the ATS between 1941 and the end of the war. Latterly she was a radar operator in SE England.
Neither of my parents talked much about their active service during the war. Dad was commissioned into the Indian Army (JAT Regt). One of the few memories mother shared with me was about how when the V2 attacks started in 1944-5, the radar screen would sometimes show the flight of one of these supersonic ballistic missiles as a thin line on the radar screen, rather than the more usual blip of a slower aircraft.
The instruction was to report the radar sighting immediately.
She was enormously pleased to receive the Home Defence medal when it was issued in, I think, 1995.
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