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
Felicity Peake
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Air Commandant Dame Felicity Hyde, Lady Peake was the founding director of the Women's Royal Air Force She started flying when her first husband took up the hobby in 1935, but in 1946 became the first
Peake in around 1941, by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
During the Berlin Airlift in 1948. She is following The Duchess of Gloucester, Commander in Chief BAFO, Sir Thomas Williams and WRAF Command Staff Officer, Group Officer Conan Doyle as they inspect the WRAF contingent at Gatow.
The Best Cadet receives her certificate from Air Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders and Air Commandant Dame Felicity Hanbury, Director of the Women's Royal Air Force, at Hawkinge, circa 1949–1950