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The Royal Observer Corps Story - A Hidden Gem of World War II

One of the hidden gems of the Second Worldeasy to forget that all those we have spoken
War is the story of how local volunteersto about their involvement in the wartime
watching the skies above England, Scotlandwork of the Corps were between 16 and 25 at
and Wales helped saved many lives and broughtthe  time!
about a change of fortune for the beleagured
RAF.Bill Harford, who was on the Mevagissey Post
in  Cornwall  told  us,
Formed in 1925 in the South East of England,
and expanded to cover more of the country"In 1942 I was a school boy at grammar
throughout the 1930s, the Observer Corpsschool, and I was very, very keen on aircraft
acted as the "Eyes and Ears of the RAF".recognition and I came to join the Royal
Observer Corps posts were sited in all sortsObserver Corps really by somebody listening
of prominent positions, often on top ofon the bus to what I was saying as we were
hills, so that the Observers could get goodgoing to school, and reported it to the local
all round vision, and be able to spot anyChief Observer, 'there is a boy on the bus
aircraft. The Corps plotted the movements ofwho  is  brilliant at aircraft recognition!'"
all aircraft in the skies over wartime
Britain, friend or foe, enabling the limitedJoyce Shrubbs, a plotter and teller at the
resources of a battered Royal Air Force toBedford  Centre  adds,
triumph over Hitler's Luftwaffe. The Corps'
contribution in the Battle of Britain was so"I think like every other young person I
significant that it was recognised with thewanted to join the Services and I wanted to
award  of  its  Royal  title.be in a uniform and feel that I was that I
doing my part for the country. I was
The work of the Corps continued throughoutparticularly interested in the Womens'
the war, saving many lives with the earlyAuxiliary Airforce, but you had to be 18 to
warning of air attacks, but many members ofdo that, so when I saw an advert in the local
the Corps were keen to be more involved withshop window, there was this huge
activity closer to the action. When the calladvertisement, 'Join the Royal Observer Corps
was made for volunteers to join gun crewsand live at home', and you only had to be 17
onboard defensively equipped merchant ships,and my seventeenth birthday was coming up so
1400 men volunteered. Those that passed theI thought that's for me. The uniform was the
rigourous training and testing were known assame colour as the Womans' Auxiliary Airforce
Seaborne Observers, and were involved inand same style and everything I just thought
Operation Overlord, saving many aircraft fromthis is what I need to do. So I went along
"friendly  fire".and joined actually on my seventeenth
birthday. It did take an agonizing 10 days
In the course of filming two videofor it to be formalised but I did actually
documentaries about the Royal Observer Corps,start  on  my  birthday."
"Tocsin Bang" (about the Cold War nuclear
reporting role the Corps had) and its prequel"Sentinels of Britain" is the wartime story
"Sentinels of Britain" (the wartime story),of the Royal Observer Corps, told by its
we met many really interesting people, andmembers, the Observers who were there.
heard plentiful fascinating stories! It is



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