“Must be grand!”
“Oh, it is! But we don’t have much time to think of that. We have work to do. Plenty of it. You see, along every coast there are thousands and thousands of volunteer watchers. They are there day and night.”
“Watching for enemy planes?”
“Yes, that’s it, and for possible enemy landings.”
“But none have come?”
“Not yet. But let us relax our vigil—then see what happens! If an aircraft carrier stole in close in the fog and sent over fifty bombing planes, hundreds—perhaps thousands would die. That must never happen.”
“No! Never!” Norma’s hand clenched hard.
“That’s the why of the Interceptor Control.”
“Do the WACs help with the watching?”
“In a way, yes. But not out on the sandbanks and rocky shores.”