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A ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CENTRE AT WORK - One of a series of pictures showing the work of a Royal Observer Corps Centre where every aircraft, both hostile and friendly, has its course plotted on the operations table. Information is received in the Centre by direct telephone line from a network of R.O.C. posts carefully sited all over the neighbourhood. From the Centre all news is imediately passed on to a Fighter Command; constant check is thereby kept of the development of raids. On information from R.O.C. centres crippled aircraft are 'homed', pilots fished out of the 'drink' and sirens sounde

A ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CENTRE AT WORK - One of a series of pictures showing the work of a Royal Observer Corps Centre where every aircraft, both hostile and friendly, has its course plotted on the operations table. Information is received in the Centre by direct telephone line from a network of R.O.C. posts carefully sited all over the neighbourhood. From the Centre all news is imediately passed on to a Fighter Command; constant check is thereby kept of the development of raids. On information from R.O.C. centres crippled aircraft are 'homed', pilots fished out of the 'drink' and sirens sounde Stock Photo
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1958 x 2553 px | 16.6 x 21.6 cm | 6.5 x 8.5 inches | 300dpi

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A ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS CENTRE AT WORK - One of a series of pictures showing the work of a Royal Observer Corps Centre where every aircraft, both hostile and friendly, has its course plotted on the operations table. Information is received in the Centre by direct telephone line from a network of R.O.C. posts carefully sited all over the neighbourhood. From the Centre all news is imediately passed on to a Fighter Command; constant check is thereby kept of the development of raids. On information from R.O.C. centres crippled aircraft are 'homed', pilots fished out of the 'drink' and sirens sounded. Picture (issued 1943) shows - An R.O.C.Centre at work. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force