Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
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| Title : | Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
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| Date of creation : | 1942 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 205 x 220 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force. The WAAAF was formed in March 1941 after intensive lobbying and in response to a shortage of wireless telegraphists. After Japan joined the war in December 1941 the service was widened and included skilled technical work on aircraft as well as other mechanical and electrical duties, and work in medical, meteorological, signals and radar areas. Numbers of women serving peaked in October 1944 at over 18,000. |
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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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