Transport Drivers |
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| Title : | Transport Drivers |
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| Creator : | Darian Smith, D., photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | 1942 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 220 x 160 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Transport drivers from the Womens Auxiliary Australian Air Force The WAAAF was formed in March 1941 after some intensive lobbying. Initially the main employment for the women was in the area of wireless telegraphy, but once Japan entered the war in December 1941 the demand and tasks for the women's employment was broadened. Tasks now included armament work, electricial and mechanical work, fitters, instrument makers and meteorological assistants, besides employment in medical, transport, catering, equipment, signals and radar fields. Numbers also increased from 1500 women at the end of 1941 to over 18,000 in late 1944. |
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| Related names : | Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Women's Auxiliary |
| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996
Bolt, Andrew Our home front 1939-1945, Melbourne: Wilkinson Books, c1995 Clark, Rosemary The home front: life in Australia during World War II, Melbourne: Australia Post, 1991 The Home front family album: remembering Australia 1939-1945, introduction by Nancy Keesing, Sydney: Weldon, 1991 McKernan, Michael All in! : Australia during the second world war, Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, 1983 Stevenson, Clare and Darling, Honor The W.A.A.A.F. book, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, c1984 Thomson, Joyce A. The WAAAF in wartime Australia, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1991 |
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