WAAF: Women in the WW2 Royal Air Force Photographs

152 items in this album on 8 pages.


WAAF fabric workers and workshop hands at a RAF Coastal Command Maintenance Unit cleaning and painting a Whitley Mark V bomber of No. 51 Squadron RAF, RAF Gosport, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown	WAAF trainee balloon operators learning their first lesson in tethering a kite balloon with a model at No. 1 Balloon Training Unit, RAF Cardington, Shortstown, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s

WAAF member machine stitching a patch onto a kite balloon at an RAF station in the United Kingdom, May 1940	Handley Page Hampden crewmembers of No. 83 Squadron RAF Bomber Command arriving at their aircraft in a lorry driven by a WAAF member, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 2 Oct 1940

Inspection of WAAF personnel, United Kingdom, 1940s	Queen Elizabeth inspecting WAAF personnel at RAF Innsworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; the officer behind the queen was Assistant Section Officer G. H. Caffin

WAAF operating crews with their barrage balloons, possibly RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; note Fordson Sussex-based winch trucks	Inspection of WAAF personnel, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942

Sergeant Holland speaking with Section Officer Bewkey while Corporal Tomkinson places markers on a wall map and Aircraftwoman Tarrant recorded data on a chalkboard, on set of film Coastal Command, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, England, United Kingdom, 1942	WAAF Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Patricia Graham, US Army Corporal H. Bielski, WAAF Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Maclean, and US Army Lieutenant Peyton Mathias listening to a radio broadcast at the Over-Seas Club of St James's, London, England, United Kingdom, 1942

WAAF and RAF radio operators recording meteorological reports from aircraft and ships, Central Forecasting Station, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	WAAF C. F. Garnet helping an RAF airman unpack a rudder and elevator unit, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942

WAAF C. F. Garnet working with the RAF Maintenance Unit, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942	WAAF cine-projectionist preparing a 16mm sound projector, RAF Ford, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, 1940s

WAAF mechanics M. Agnew, M. H. Arnott, and C. W. Fraser inspecting a M.19 Master II aircraft at RAF Errol, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1940s	WAAF members having a meal, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Stanmore, England, United Kingdom, 1942

WAAF personnel and ground crew members waving off Pilot Officer W. H. Eager RCAF and his crew of a Lancaster B Mark I bomber of No. 61 Squadron RAF, RAF Syerston, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942-1943; this bomber was later lost during a raid on Mannheim, Germany on 10 Aug 1943	WAAF recruit C. F. Garnet attending a training course, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942

WAAF recruits listening to a lecture on centrifugal force and torque motors, possibly RAF Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, 1942	RAF Hornchurch station commander Group Captain Charles Lott putting on his flying kit with the assistance of his WAAF driver Leading Aircraftwoman Mary Ford, Hornchurch, Essex (now London Borough of Havering), England, United Kingdom, Jun 1942; note Spitfire fighter in background