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Ops Room

  • Katherine Du Plat-Taylor
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon

Transcript

(operations room chatter)

The Royal Observer Corps

would transmit to the Operations Room.

And we would pick up the coordinates,

put down your marker where

You had a stand and you put on the stand

the number that had been given.

That particular aircraft,

Then it would be how many were in it.

And then it would be the

The hour was divided into red,

And according to what the

that colored arrow you used.

So that the officer, who was

could see from that when

how long they'd been in the air,

and which direction they were going in.

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