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SPITFIRE WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II
Giles Whittell
For Karen
Contents
5 All Over Europe the Air Was Free
8 We LIKE You In Your Harness!
10 The Perfect Lady’s Aeroplane
Amy Johnson RAF Museum
Gordon Selfridge and Rosemary Rees From ATA Girl, Memoirs of A Wartime Ferry Pilot by Rosemary du Cros
Rosemary Rees with a Miles Hawk Major From ATA Girl, Memoirs of
A Wartime Ferry Pilot by Rosemary du Cros
Audrey Sale-Barker Courtesy Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
Sale-Barker and Joan Page Courtesy Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
Gerard d’Erlanger Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Pauline Gower in a Tiger Moth Imperial War Museum
Lt. Col. J.T. Moore-Brabazon Imperial War Museum
The ‘First Eight’ Eric Viles/ATA Association
The men of the ATA Imperial War Museum
Lettice Curtis climbing into a Spitfire Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Curtis and Gower in the cockpit of an Anson Imperial War Museum
Gabrielle Patterson climbing out of an Avro Anson Imperial War Museum
Diana Barnato Walker Courtesy the collection of Diana Barnato Walker
Derek Walker Courtesy the collection of Diana Barnato Walker
Joan Hughes Imperial War Museum
Jackie Sorour Hulton Getty
Mary de Bunsen Photograph by J.D.H. Radford, from Mount Up With Wings by Mary de Bunsen
Freydis Leaf Courtesy Freydis Sharland
Joan Hughes standing with a Short Stirling Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Maureen Dunlop Hulton Getty
Ann Wood Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Ann Wood with her fellow flying pupils Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Waiting to be cleared for take-off in a Spitfire Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
An ATA Anson Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Ann Blackwell in a Typhoon Imperial War Museum
Jackie Cochran Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Helen Harrison, Ann Wood and Suzanne Ford Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Pauline Gower at White Waltham Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Cochran and Gower Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Eleanor Roosevelt at White Waltham Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Helen Richey Courtesy Robin d’Erlanger/British Airways Museum
Flt. Capt. Francis ‘Frankie’ Francis Courtesy the Collection of Ann Wood-Kelly
Bobby