TELEPHONIST TOOK FIRST CALL FROM BEACH-HEAD - On 28th June 1944 Corporal Beryl McLeish, a 25 yeur old telephonist noticed that one of the coloured signal lights on the switchboard in front of her was twinkling more vigorously than usual. Plugging in to answer, she was told to stand-by for a call coming through from an base in Normandy. The caller at the other end wanted to speak to Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the of the Allied Forces. It was the first call to be put through from the beach-head to the Air Chief Marshal's on the special
TELEPHONIST TOOK FIRST CALL FROM BEACH-HEAD - On 28th June 1944 Corporal Beryl McLeish, a 25 yeur old telephonist noticed that one of the coloured signal lights on the switchboard in front of her was twinkling more vigorously than usual. Plugging in to answer, she was told to stand-by for a call coming through from an base in Normandy. The caller at the other end wanted to speak to Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the of the Allied Forces. It was the first call to be put through from the beach-head to the Air Chief Marshal's on the special cable laid under the Channel after the landings. Corporal McLeish is one of the telephonists at the headquarters. She was on duty at her switchboard on "D"-Day and handled many of the hundreds of calls which conveyed orders to airfields from which the thousands of aircraft took off to take part in the operations. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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