Eileen Younghusband (WAAF officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eileen Younghusband (WAAF officer)

WAAF officer, memoirist

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 02-Sep-2016

Profession: historian, memoirist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Eileen Muriel Younghusband, BEM (née Le Croissette; 4 July 1921 – 2 September 2016) was a filter officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in World War II.
She worked in the filter room, a top-level British air defence hub which assessed radar reports in order to give air raid warnings.
Later, while posted to Belgium, she was part of a team of mathematicians who alerted Allied forces to the location of V-2 rocket launch sites.Younghusband completed a university degree at the age of 87 and subsequently published three books about her wartime experiences: two memoirs and one children's book.