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The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, 1939-1945
March 31, 2017
During the Second World War, 100,000 women served in the uniformed services – mostly as nurses, but also as combatants following a government act allowing for the conscription of women in 1941. Women were now building planes and tanks, driving vehicles and flying planes, decoding German messages and acting as spies.
copyright: By Royal Air Force official photographer, Watkins (Mr) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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