CORONA operating position at the Headquarters of the RAF 'Y' Service, Hollywood Manor, West Kingsdown, Kent. A German-speaking operator is speaking into the 'ghost voice' microphone (top), while a WAAF flight-sergeant records the exchanges on a German receiver. The gramophone turntable was used for jumbled-voice jamming on Luftwaffe radio frequencies.
Original wartime caption: Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth recently visited airfields of the Second Tactical Air Force. On the station an Investiture was held by the King, and the Queen inspected W.A.A.F. personnel. Picture (issued 1944) shows - A group taken after the Investiture. Seated - left to right - Air Vice Marshal T.W.
The King shaking hands with Officers of Combined Operations HQ.
This crashed Halifax III at Full Sutton in early January 1945 was the centrepiece of a posed sequence illustrating the work of WAAF nursing orderlies. Corporal Dennett and Aircraftwoman Agnes Hall, both aged 23, attend to an 'injured' crew member as other ground personnel pose by the pilot's escape hatch.
Chain Home: airmen and WAAF operators at work in the wooden Receiver hut at Ventnor CH, Isle of Wight, during the Battle of Britain.
Original wartime caption: The Czech sergeant-pilot who has flown with a "Spitfire" squadron, is now helping to train air gunners.
General view inside the propeller shed at No 16 Maintenance Unit, Stafford, Staffordshire.
A WAAF sergeant, driver to the Station Commander at Cardington, Bedfordshire, studying a route map on her Ford Type 'J' staff car.
Lance Corporal A E Cheeseman (left) from Dunstable, and Mrs M G Salter, a Canadian WAAF from Sackville, New Brunswick, enjoy a cup of tea and a chat with the cook in the kitchen before leaving the YWCA club at the Close in Norwich. Any women who have to leave the club before breakfast time can go to the kitchen to get something to eat before they go.
Chain Home: Flight Officer P M Wright supervises (right) as Sergeant K F Sperrin and WAAF operators Joan Lancaster, Elaine Miley, Gwen Arnold and Joyce Hollyoak work on the plotting map in the Receiver Room at Bawdsey CH, Suffolk.
Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA): Women pilots, forming a section of the Air Transport Auxiliary service, ferried new Royal Air Force aircraft from factory to aerodrome. Photograph shows Pauline Gower, Commandant of the ATA Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a De Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight.
Marjorie in Uniform. ...
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A member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force pours aircraft paint into cans. ca. 1941.
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