As a young Women's Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy's beaches under enemy fire. Referring to huge maps of the Normandy coast on the wall in front of her, she painstakingly created maps for landing craft crews.
Christian Lamb who was a serving Wren at the time of D-Day, looks through a photograph album at her home in London, Thursday, April 11, 2024. D-Day, took place on June 6, 1944, the invasion of the beaches at Normandy in France by Alied forces during World War II.Christian Lamb who was a serving Wren at the time of D-Day, shows pictures of herself in uniform, in a photograph album at her home in London, Thursday, April 11, 2024.
Lamb recalls an air of tension as senior military and civilian officials around her prepared for Operation Overlord, the long-discussed Allied invasion of Europe that eventually ended the Nazis’ grip on the continent. Occasionally passing Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the stairs on her way to work, she wondered what kind of pressure Britain’s leader was under.
Her next assignment was as a plotting officer at Portsmouth, the home of the Royal Navy. Lamb was part of a team of Wrens who used information from radar stations and coast guards to plot ship movements through the English Channel on a large flat table.
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