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Picture No 12688928
Date 1939
Description Women queueing for Auxiliary Air Force posts, September 1939
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Women in London queueing for posts in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, a few weeks after the outbreak of war. The WAAF was founded by the King in June 1939 and designed to replace male RAF workers in non-combative roles with women to allow more men to be sent to the front. The Sphere lists some of the jobs on offer to women including; telephonists, mess staff, teleprinters and fabric workers.
Source Unattributed photographer in ‘The Sphere’, 30 September 1939, page 501
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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