Photos Women In World War II

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22 yo WASP pilot Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) at the controls of a B-26 bomber at Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas. 1943

 

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Jackie Moggridge (1 March 1922-7 January 2004 (aged 81)) ferried 1,438 planes during WW2. She was awarded King’s Commendation for Valuable Services in Air postwar and determined to continue flying. From 1948-1954 she was pilot WRAFVR where in 1953, she earned RAF wings.

 

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Veronica (Ronnie) Foster, employee of the John Inglis Co. and known as "The Bren Gun Girl", poses with a finished Bren gun in front of a poster of Winston Churchill at the John Inglis Co. Bren gun plant. Toronto, Ont. 10 May 1941

 

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Trainee pilot Madge Rutherford from the Women's Flying Training Detachment writes a letter home after finishing a Coca Cola. A Vultee BT-13 Valiant can be seen in the background. Avenger Field, Texas, July 1943.

Madge Rutherford Minton, 84, of Indianapolis died Sunday November 7th, 2004.

 

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Sgt Dulcie Lawton from the Central Provinces, Sgt Zena Desouza and Sgt Thelma Bromley, (Anglo-Indians) both of Calcutta, from the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) WAC(I) posed together on a parade ground in India, February 1945

 

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Private Margaret Hicks of the ATS, member of an anti-aircraft gun battery on the South Coast of England, paints another V-1 flying bomb “kill” on the battery scoreboard - August 6, 1944
This gun battery consisted of 40mm Bofors and QF 3.7-inch AA guns

 

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Personnel of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) who are members of the Canadian Army "Invasion Revue" show, Ranville, France. July 30, 1944.

 

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RN WRENS Dispatch Riders Group, 1941

 

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Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) officers-in-training man a searchlight in Western Command, 28 February 1944. Second Subaltern (2/Sub) Janet Holland is nearest the camera with 2/Sub Eileen Eteson behind.

 

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Factory workers assembling Sten sub machine guns at the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), 1942.

 

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RAF Ground personnel, including WAAF transport driver Peggy Meek, with 1,000lb bombs being readied for loading into a Avro Lancaster at an airfield in the UK - 1944

 

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Female Partisans wait to go on a patrol near Castelluccio Italy - October 5, 1944. Note British Sten Mk II SMGs, Beretta Model 38 SMG, and Breda 30 LMG with extra barrel

 

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Five sea sick US Army nurses take in some fresh air. As their transport ploughs through the ocean, destination unknown, adventure guaranteed.

 

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Female employee operating a large drill jig at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Factory in New Haven, Connecticut during WW2

 

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The first US pilot to encounter the Japanese at Pearl Harbor was a woman. WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) Cornelia Clark Fort was a flight instructor on Oahu.

She was teaching a student in an Interstate Cadet on that fateful day when she saw a military airplane heading towards them & swiftly grabbed the controls from her student to pull up over the oncoming aircraft. It was then she saw the Japanese rising sun insignia on the wings.

Whilst Cornelia survived the attack, she sadly didn't survive the war. She was ferrying a Vultee BT-13A Valiant from California to Texas on 21 Mar 1943. She was leading a flight of 5 BT-13s when the left wing of her aircraft was struck from behind by another. Cornelia became the first female pilot in American history to die on active duty.

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Female workers at the Kelly Springfield, Allegany Ordnance Plant manufacturing .50 BMG Ammunition in Cumberland, Maryland - 1943

 

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A “Rosie” assists a Welder at the Electric Boat Company shipyard in Groton, Connecticut - 1943

 

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The first Army nurses to arrive on Okinawa in May of 1945. These nurses were already veterans of 14 months of service on the home front, Africa, and Italy.