Photos Women In World War II

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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Jackie Moggridge joined the Hatfield Ferry Pool on July 29th 1940, being the youngest of the female pilots, aged 18. The South African safely handed over 1,500 aircraft during the war, 83 different types and 200 more than any other ATA pilot.
She had a very lucky escape on January 5, 1941 when ferrying an Oxford Mk I to RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire, with no R/T to meet up with 1st Officer Amy Johnson who was bringing one in from Blackpool. Both went off course in adverse weather conditions, with Johnson following the rules, bailing out and drowning in the Thames Estuary. Jackie went down to a few hundred feet and found herself over the Bristol channel with 20 minutes fuel remaining. She claimed that she did not want to take to the chute because she had broken her leg during a parachute jump in 1938.
Jackie also encountered a V-1 flying bomb in the air over Surrey while flying a Tempest. She altered course, fully intending to attempt to topple it with her wingtip, but failed to catch up to it.
Jackie was also the first woman in South Africa to make a parachute jump. (4,000 feet).She was South Africa’s youngest pilot of her time age 17 years. November 1959 was awarded Jean Bird trophy as Woman of the year . She flew Lancaster, Spitfire and other planes as a RAF pilot during World War 2. She logged over 4,000 miles in flying over Europe, North Africa and Middle East.
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Jackie flying Israeli Spitfires to Burma
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The following passage is from The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of Sister Myrle Mary Eileen Moston held on 6 June 2013: "Born in Trangie, New South Wales, in 1907, Myrle enjoyed growing up in the wide open spaces of the Western Plains. Her parents, Alfred and Elizabeth Moston, ran the local hotel. After a move to Sydney during the Great Depression, Myrle worked as a stenographer before beginning her nursing training. She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1941."
"With the outbreak of fighting in New Guinea, the Allied Army there needed constant resupply as well as medical evacuation for sick and wounded troops. In January 1943 the Centaur, a passenger and cargo ship which had been operating along the Western Australian coast for twenty years, was converted into a hospital ship capable of carrying almost 300 patients. Sister Moston was posted on board."
"In early May 1943, the ship set out from Sydney Harbour for its ill-fated second voyage, heading north to Cairns. On board were members of the 2/12th Field Ambulance, 12 nurses from the Australian Army Nursing Service, and 68 seamen from the ship's crew."
"At approximately 4:10 am on Friday, 14 May 1943, with many of those on board sound asleep in their bunks, Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, despite being ablaze with lights and clearly marked with red crosses."
"Sister Ellen Savage, the only survivor among the 12 nurses later wrote: My cabin mate, Myrle Moston and myself were awakened by two terrific explosions and practically thrown out of bed. Sister Moston and I were so shocked we did not even speak, but I registered mentally that it was a torpedo explosion. We rushed to the porthole, looked out, and saw the ship ablaze."
"Still in their pyjamas, they rushed to the deck and jumped overboard together. Myrle was struck by a piece of falling timber and died in the water; she was 35 years old. In three minutes the ship had sunk. Of the 322 crew and staff on board, only 64 survived."
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