How A Teenage Girl Helped Win The Battle Of Britain | The Inspiring Story Of Hazel Hill

The story of Hazel Hill is one of those bizarre tales from World War Two. At just 13 years old, she would help her father help calculate something which would turn the war in the Allies' favour.

At the time, British fighters only had limited armament. It would be Captain Hill and his daughter who figured out that new fighters in the late 1930s would need at least 8 machine guns in order to shoot down modern aircraft.

This is how Hazel Hill helped change the tide of war.

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[Captain_K]

Hazel Hill was my fathers cousin, and I remember meeting Hazel when i was younger. Glad to say I keep up the aviation line in my family, being a pilot for 33 years with the airlines. 🙂

[BW]

My mom got a job at with the military in London in 1941. She was 15, sat in a room full of other girls, each doing a simple math operation, and passing the cards down the line. They did calculations for artillery round charts. She almost didn't get the job because (coming from Ireland) when asked to sound out the calculations she did so in Gaelic. Lots of teen girls worked all sorts of jobs -- message running, servers at barracks, directed people into the undergrounds,

[paulmk]

From the title I thought that this was going to be about Beatrice Shilling who partially improved a very serious problem with carburation in the Merlin engines. The pilots jokingly called her invention, which was essentially a metal ring, Miss Shillings Orifice. Now, she really did make a difference.

[tomooo]

I am dyslexic, and crap at English and was in detention many times as school for being "naughty" in the 1970s.
But I write mathematical algorithms for machine learning (the underlying code in pytorch etc), protein crystallography, molecular graphics, genomics information theory and so on.
If you are dyslexic don't let the bastards grind you down.

[jqtf]

Hugh Dowding...underappreciated genius architect of victorious RAF!

[jeffhester]

Very few in the US realized just how crucial the air battle of Britain truly was at the time. Not only for Britain, but for Europe and the world.

[powerjets]

Dyslexic people can make huge differences, if only the system gives them a chance to do their things. Getting to uni back then as a dyslexic women was a huge achievement too. Great video.

[bbb]

I'm so tickled by her contribution. I love underdogs and overlooked people who come to the rescue of the many who dismiss them! It reminds me of several small childhood accomplishments i had in spite of ADHD and Asperger's syndrome. Human's can really surprise you.

[tectorama]

I think the later success of the Spitfires and Hurricanes was due to the range at which the guns were harmonized.
This was born out by the Polish pilots who attacked from a much closer range than the RAF. Which made them
the highest scoring squadrons.

[couttsy]

I just read about Hazel Hill and her father a couple of weeks ago in the book "The Spitfire Kids". It is wonderful, despite the passing of time since the end of the war, that so many interesting stories are coming to light.

[ericalawson]

Mr. Hill, Ms. Hill along with Mr.Camm and Mr. Mitchell stand in the exalted ranks of "The Few" Respect and thanks

[ricardodavidson]

There's another correction, the Hurricane was designed with 4 guns, and one can see this in photos of the wooden mock-up. Two Vickers Mk V firing through the airscrew (low down in the cowl) and two in one wing (strange but true, the space on the other wing carried the landing light). When the 8-gun business came out it was discovered that the Vickers gun could not be speeded up beyond about 800 rounds per minute, it started to fail unacceptably. A contest was organised to select a new gun for the RAF. The Browning M1917 was selected as it could be speeded up to 1100-1200 rpm, modified to fire from an open breech, and capable of feeding .303 rimmed ammunition. They also modified the recoil booster, and all sorts of details, it was almost a new gun.The other near-winner was the French Darne gun, which had a very different feed mechanism and probably could not be modified to fire .303. The open-breech thing was to do with cook-off prevention, but it also made it impossible to use as a synchronised gun. Hence in the Swordfish the forward-firing gun is a Vickers (and a waste of space it was...). It was Dowding who told the chap that came up with the sums to go and show them to Hawker's and Supermarine, to include the 8 guns in their designs. What made them so effective, in spite of the relatively low power of the .303 ammo, was advanced projectile technology, namely the DeWilde bullet (which wasn't a DeWilde bullet...).

[j.dunlop]

In 1970 the celebration of 30 anniversary of the battle of Britain I was at a boy scout jamboree London England, pilots and survivors shared their stories, and we would take a life time to appreciate it's significants! "A close run thing!" I remember.

[davidrumbelow]

I enjoyed your story, easy to listen to voice. My mum had a great story, she worked on project Pluto, checking on production quality. Whilst my father was an unwilling guest of the German government after Dunkirk. After the war he had to go back to Germany to buy machines for the company he worked for. The sales engineer just happened to be the POW camp commander.

[lambastepirate]

The machine guns they both used where basically the same size .303 = 7.69 mm Germans used 7.92 mm and fired 50 more rounds in a minute, so very little difference. The cannons is what made the difference!

[davidllewis]

In 1sr grade (think 1949) our parents solemnly informed my brother and I that our sister was "retarded". She has a Masters in education, spent her life teaching children with 'developmental disabilities" and could not go on to a Doctorate because she never could do math. She is still dyslectic.

[gordonmurray]

In fairness, the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter pilots helped Hazel in her battle against the nazi luftewaffe.
She didn't win the Battle of Britain just by herself, she had help.

[seventhson]

That's why the P-47 was such a badass (8x.50)

[joenisnapje]

It takes many ‘insignificant people’ to create an army of unsung heroes. Here is a post mortem hooray for Hazel 👏🏽🙂

[aussiefan]

What a hero. We need more dedicated people like her nowadays .