Gunners In Vintage Pictures II

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GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943. 23 year old ATS Junior-Commander Joyce Bathurst looks through binoculars as she times anti-aircraft shells with a stop watch from the moment of firing until the burst. She shouts the results out to a colleague who records the information.