525 items in this album on 27 pages.

WAAF personnel transposing morse tape into plain language (foreground) and vice versa (further to the right) at Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF personnel unloading boxes of 20mm Hispano cannon shells while RAF armourers loaded them for a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945WAAF personnel working on a Horsa aircraft of the Heavy Glider Conversion Unit at Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; note Whitley glider tugs in backgroundWAAF preparing material for new recruits at the Aircrew Reception Centre, St John
WAAF personnel transposing morse tape into plain language (foreground) and vice versa (further to the right) at Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF personnel unloading boxes of 20mm Hispano cannon shells while RAF armourers loaded them for a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945WAAF personnel working on a Horsa aircraft of the Heavy Glider Conversion Unit at Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; note Whitley glider tugs in backgroundWAAF preparing material for new recruits at the Aircrew Reception Centre, St John's Wood, London, England, United Kingdom, 1940s
WAAF Sergeant Barrie Monteney examining a spool of film with her RAF commanding officer Squadron Leader E. P. G. Moyna, No. 1 RAFFPU, RAF Stanmore Park, Stanmore, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1940sWAAF teleprinter operators receiving messages for onward transmission by wireless telegraphy, Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF trainee cooks during morning inspection at the School of Cookery, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF trainees undergoing an examination at the School of Cookery, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown
WAAF Sergeant Barrie Monteney examining a spool of film with her RAF commanding officer Squadron Leader E. P. G. Moyna, No. 1 RAFFPU, RAF Stanmore Park, Stanmore, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1940sWAAF teleprinter operators receiving messages for onward transmission by wireless telegraphy, Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF trainee cooks during morning inspection at the School of Cookery, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknownWAAF trainees undergoing an examination at the School of Cookery, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown
WAAFs gathering in a drill shed awaiting transport to South-East Asia Command, RAF West Kirby, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940sWomenA war weary Sunderland III flying boat of Royal Australian Air Force No. 10 Squadron being hauled out of the water for an overhaul at Mount Batten Seaplane Base, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Jan 1943A27M Cromwell tank on gunnery trials, England, United Kingdom, circa early 1943
WAAFs gathering in a drill shed awaiting transport to South-East Asia Command, RAF West Kirby, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940sWomen's Royal Naval Service river pilots Pat McGinnis, Pat Turner, and Patricia Downing studying charts at Plymouth Naval Base, England, United Kingdom, date unknownA war weary Sunderland III flying boat of Royal Australian Air Force No. 10 Squadron being hauled out of the water for an overhaul at Mount Batten Seaplane Base, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Jan 1943A27M Cromwell tank on gunnery trials, England, United Kingdom, circa early 1943
Brigadier General Westside T. Larson, commanding officer of Antisubmarine Command in England, commending Captain Jack H. Shaw, Navigator of B-24D Liberator Two women amidst a wrecked building, Newbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 11 Feb 1943False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.
Brigadier General Westside T. Larson, commanding officer of Antisubmarine Command in England, commending Captain Jack H. Shaw, Navigator of B-24D Liberator 'Tidewater Tillie,' at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom after the aircraft sank a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay.Two women amidst a wrecked building, Newbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 11 Feb 1943False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.
Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.A Diamond T tank transporter carrying a Churchill tank at the British Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers experimental recovery section at Aborfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 7 Apr 1943British Typhoon Mk.IB aircraft at rest at RAF Matlaske in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, 21 Apr 1943Covenanter tank during Exercise Columbus, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, May 1943
Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.A Diamond T tank transporter carrying a Churchill tank at the British Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers experimental recovery section at Aborfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 7 Apr 1943British Typhoon Mk.IB aircraft at rest at RAF Matlaske in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, 21 Apr 1943Covenanter tank during Exercise Columbus, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, May 1943

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