Jackie Moggridge
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Jackie Moggridge was a pioneering pilot, the first woman to do a parachute jump in South Africa and the first female airline captain of scheduled passenger services.
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
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The Women's Auxiliary Air Force, whose members were referred to as WAAFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Established in 1939, WAAF numbers exceede
WAAF recruitment poster
A WAAF corporal serving as an air traffic controller during the Second World War. Many jobs formerly held by men were filled by WAAFs due to wartime labour shortages.
The Operations Room at RAF Fighter Command's No. 10 Group Headquarters, RAF Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Wiltshire, showing WAAF plotters and duty officers at work, 1943
Leading aircraftwoman Myra Roberts, corporal Lydia Alford and leading aircraftwoman Edna Birkbeck, the first WAAF nursing orderlies selected to fly on air-ambulance duties to France, 1944