WAAF: Women in the WW2 Royal Air Force Photographs

152 items in this album on 8 pages.


British WAAF member and an American non-commissioned officer recording the arrival of an American aircraft in the operations room of US Air Transport Command at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1944	British WAAF radio operators intercepting German nightfighter communications with the Corona System, 1940s

English painter Elva Blacker in WAAF uniform, 1940s	Leading Aircraftwoman Gladys Maugham and WAAF and RAF members putting on the show 'When it's Springtime in the Rockies' for other service members at the RAF depot at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1944

Patients in the WAAF Ward at No. 5 RAF General Hospital, Abassia, Cairo, Egypt, 1944-1945	Three WAAF members checking rations while two RAF members unloaded sacks of flour in the store room at the RAF depot at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1944

WAAF and RAF members putting on the show 'When it's Springtime in the Rockies' for other service members at the RAF depot at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1944	WAAF flight mechanics pulling chocks away from a Miles Martinet TT Mark I target tug of No. 289 Squadron RAF at RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1943-1945

WAAF flight mechanics pulling the chocks from the wheels of a Beaufort Mark I aircraft of No. 51 Operational Training Unit before a training flight from RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944; note a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft in background	WAAF Leading Aircraftwoman Esther Bashford starring in a show, RAF Uxbridge, London, England, United Kingdom, 1944

WAAF Leading AIrcraftwoman Gladys Maugham washing a baking tin at the RAF depot at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1944	WAAF Leading Aircraftwomen Iris Denholm and Doris Evans checking the desert survival equipment of a Hurricane aircraft at a Maintenance Unit in the Middle East, 1944-1945

WAAF Leading Aircraftwomen Jackie Bergen and Fredda Tinsley, with other RAF and WAAF personnel, dancing at the Lady Rosalinde Tedder Club in Cairo, Egypt, 1944-1945	WAAF members plotting a course in an office at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1944

WAAF parachute packers ACW1 Sheina Brown, ACW1 Edith Tindle, ACW1 Olive Snow, Corporal Doris Mothersole, Sergeant Betty Jones, LACW Phyllis Baduchowska, and ACW1 Anne Douglas at the Parachute Training School, RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944	WAAF personnel at meal time, RAF Uxbridge, London, England, United Kingdom, 1944

WAAF personnel feeding pigeons at Trafalgar Square, London, England, United Kingdom, 1944	WAAF personnel repacking parachutes following a training exercise, Headquarters No. 38 Group RAF, Netheravon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, circa 1944

WAAF personnel serving lunch at the RAF depot at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1944	WAAF safety equipment assistants inspecting Mark I Life Jackets ('Mae Wests') in the parachute section at RAF Snaith, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942-1945