Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos (47 page)

13  & 14  An imaginative programme design for the revue
Out of the Blue
, which had an all-female cast.

15  A V-1 flying bomb in flight, otherwise known as a Doodlebug.

16  The Medmenham Club was formed in 1946 ‘to preserve wartime friendships’. The lynx at the centre of the crest represents the keen-sightedness of the photographic interpreter.

17  An aerial view of Danesfield House in 2000, under reconstruction, showing the extent of the grounds and its proximity to the river.

18  Pat Peat (O’Neil) at home in Maryland, USA, in August 2009, displaying her sketch of Studley Priory in Oxfordshire, drawn in 1945 before she sailed home for demobilisation.

19  Margaret Price (Hurley) and Xavier Atencio, a ‘Disney Legend’, were both PIs at RAF Medmenham. They met again in California, USA, in December 2010.

20  A Medmenham Club reunion in the gardens of Danesfield House Hotel, August 2010. Len Chance (a PI at Wembley and Medmenham), Suzie Morrison (Morgan), Hazel Furney (Scott), Myra Murden (Collyer), Lavender Bruce (Westwood) and Elizabeth Johnston-Smith (Hick).

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