From the Express:
Like Scott, Joan Fanshawe didn't think of herself as anyone particularly heroic, she simply had a job to do.
"I was a plotter. I was a WAF, aged 20 when I joined up in 1940 and of course, Battle of Britain was just about to be starting, so I joined up just at the time that it was really busy,” Fanshawe said.
"Without the downing system, which is what I belonged to, we would never have been able to know where the German aircraft were.
She obviously said “Dowding” but someone mis-heard or mis-transcribed. What a shame that today’s journalists are so ignorant about a great man.