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...
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The Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF), formerly the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF), together with the Air Force Reserve, is a component of His Majesty's Reserve...
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The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941 after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve, as well as by the Chief...
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the Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF), the name changed to Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division in February 1942. Women's Division personnel...
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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...
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The Women's Auxiliary Air Force was the female auxiliary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. Established in 1941, it began...
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Women's Royal Naval Service Auxiliary Territorial Service Women's Auxiliary Air Force Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Home Defence Women's Auxiliary Service...
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rank of Air Vice-Marshal. The equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, Women's Royal Air Force (until...
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the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Royal Air Force (until 1968) and Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (until 1980) was "air commandant"...
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The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was the women's branch of the Royal Air Force, existing from 1 April 1918 until 1 April 1920, when it was disbanded...
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the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Women's Transport Service. Married women were also later called up, although pregnant women and those with...
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Noor Inayat Khan (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen)
English people and the Indians." In November 1940, Noor joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and, as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class, was sent to be trained...
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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
Australian Women's Land Army 1939: Head and Senior Controller, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) 1940: Air Commandant, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1943:...
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The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up at the start of the Second World War with headquarters at White Waltham Airfield...
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of former Women's Army Corps members (WACs) continued serving in the Army but performed Air Force duties, as the Air Force did not admit women in its first...
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Group captain (category Air force ranks)
the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, Women's Royal Air Force (until 1968) and Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing...
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Plotter (RAF) (category Air traffic control)
fighters. The majority of plotters were female, members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFs). Captain Philip Edward Broadley Fooks transferred from...
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The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)...
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Jean Conan Doyle (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
House, Eastbourne, and went on to serve for thirty years in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), where she worked in intelligence during World War II...
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Daphne Pearson (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
1911 – 25 July 2000) was a Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer during the Second World War and one of only thirteen women recipients of the George Cross...
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Sarah Churchill (actress) (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
relationship. During the Second World War, Churchill joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). In her account of the work of photo reconnaissance Evidence...
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Jackie Moggridge (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen)
many women interested in flying for the war effort, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force until she could join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA)...
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Sonya Butt (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
up for at least a couple of years. Her preference was for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), as her father had served in the RAF himself, but the...
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change during this decade was the integration of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force into the Air Force in 1977, removing most restrictions on their employment...
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Perak. Involvement continues until 1960. 1949 Women's Auxiliary Air Force becomes Women's Royal Air Force 1952 December - Flight Lieutenant John Nicholls...
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots' organization...
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Wing commander (category Military ranks of the Royal Air Force)
equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Women's Royal Air Force (until 1968) and in Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (until...
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Felicity Peake (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
She became the Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force on 12 October 1946 with the rank of Air Commandant (Air Commodore).. As the last director...
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Nancy Salmon (category Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers)
Dame Nancy Snagge, was a senior British women's air force officer. She was Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) from 1950 to 1956. Salmon was born...
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Flying officer (category Military ranks of the Royal Air Force)
The equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was "section officer". The rank was used in the Royal Canadian Air Force until the 1968 unification...
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