Staff from Dirleton GCI Station , WW2
This group were part of the Dirleton Ground Control of Interception unit, an RAF RADAR installation. Most of them were conscripts, due to serve for the duration of hostilities. When this photograph was taken their station was well away from the focus of the war, but still had a role in operational training and guarding against surprise air attacks from Norway.
This black and white photograph is an informal group portrait of men and women serving with the Royal Air Force, Women’s Royal Air Force and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. The group is posed out-of-doors at their station in the East Lothian countryside.
East Lothian’s three RAF airfields and their ‘eyes and ears’, a number of RADAR and watching stations, played a key role in Central Scotland’s air defences during 1939-45. Dirleton GCI guided night-fighters to intercept enemy aircraft and worked closely with 784 Squadron based at Drem.
Museum id no. 1999.19.5
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