Women of IntelligenceWinning the Second World War with Air Photos
Christine Halsall
Over half the staff of the Allied Central Interpretation Unit were women, and unusually for the time they were ranked equally with their male colleagues. In an ornate Victorian manor overlooking the Thames, they studied reconnaissance aerial photographs of occupied Europe in minute detail to discover the enemy’s activities. They were sworn to secrecy and it is only recently that their stories have emerged, presented here in their own words.