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The Women's Royal Air Force ( WRAF) was the women's branch of the Royal Air Force. It existed in two separate incarnations: the Women's Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1920 and the Women's Royal Air Force from 1949 to 1994. On 1 February 1949, the name of the First World War organisation was revived when the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, which had ...
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force ( WAAF ), whose members were referred to as WAAFs ( / ˈwæfs / ), was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Established in 1939, WAAF numbers exceeded 181,000 at its peak strength in 1943, (15.7% of the RAF) [ 1] with over 2,000 women enlisting per week.
The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing Street. The sculpture represents the wartime contributions of over seven million women, including 650,000 who joined military services. It is a 6.7-metre (22 ft) tall hollow bronze resembling a ...
Like Sally and so many others, he couldn’t wait to serve. This Monday, 98-year-old Sally Hatch Keithley-McCulley, who lives in Shawnee, flew to France for several of the many observations of the ...
Maj. John "Lucky" Luckadoo smiles at the audience during the WWII Eighth Air Force Veterans Panel at The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum on Sunday, May 26th.
Decommissioned and closed in 1976. Flying training establishment and Flying Training Command. Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAF Spitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station, located 2 mi (3.2 km) south east of the centre of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England fronting ...
Insignia. RCAF Women's Division badge. The Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division was a non-combatant element of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) which was active during the Second World War. The Women's Division's original role was to replace male air force personnel so that they would be available for combat-related duties.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots[ 2] or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots[ 3]) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.