gave me a small german dictionary, so i used to spend my evenings as a schoolgirl sitting with mrs geltzel were talking more in german than english. i neverfound languages a problem — in fact german turned out to be a rather useful language to have during the war. we trained at mill hill, and wimbledon, and then we were sent to little coastal listening stations. my first station was on the yorkshire coast, at a place called withernsea, because we had very good reception from the baltic. and the german naval ships used to talk coming out of the baltic or leaving their bases in the baltic. and at withernsea we used to search their wavelengths, write down everything we heard — they kept radio silence most of the time, but we were searching up and down their radio frequencies in our little secret stations. and i think we probably got a fair amount of useful information. and we passed the coded messages to bletchley park, and the plain language messages to the nearest naval intelligence centre. they would sometimes have a bit of chat, you know, "did you know so—and—so's boat "are all going on l

gave me a small german dictionary, so i used to spend my evenings as a schoolgirl sitting with mrs geltzelg more in german than english. i neverfound languages a problem — german turned out to be a rather useful language to have during the war. we trained at mill hill, and wimbledon, and then we were sent to little coastal listening stations. my first station was on the yorkshire coast, at a place called withernsea, because we had very good reception from the baltic. and the german naval ships used to talk coming out of the baltic or leaving their bases in the baltic. and at withernsea we used to search their wavelengths, write down everything we heard — they kept radio silence most of the time, but we were searching up and down their radio frequencies in our little secret stations. and i think we probably got a fair amount of useful information. and we passed the coded messages to bletchley park, and the plain language messages to the nearest naval intelligence centre. they would sometimes have a bit of chat, you know, "did you know so—and—so's boat "are all going on leave next week?". an