RAF's No. 2 School of Photography

A group of RAF and WAAF Women's Auxiliary Air Force instructors, posed for the camera outside the No. 2 School of Photography. The RAF's No. 2 School of Photography was established in August 1940 to meet the rapidly increasing need for more photographers and photographic technicians to aid with aerial reconnaissance during the Second World War. The School was based at the Blackpool Technical College and Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool. Training of women at the School began in 1941. Knicky Knapman later Chapman is included in the image, standing third from the left in the front row

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