Meteorological Training

We went to classes every day, six days a week. We had Sundays off. When that was finished then it was necessary for us to have practical training. So we were all dispatched to be the assistants to meteorological officers on airfields. Usually, I think invariably RAF stations and I went to a place called Dunsfold.There were a couple of squadrons of Mitchell bombers on that airfield and it was kind of interesting and a bit of fun. The next thing I knew I was sent to a sector headquarters that was at Tangmere which is on the coast, south coast and that’s, it was a fighter base and it was a sector belonging to the air defence of Great Britain. So this was a notch up. I was then sent to the Eleven Group Headquarters at Oxbridge and Eleven Group was there and Eleven Group was where the air defence of Great Britain was controlled, and they had quite a big staff of meteorologists.