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Pre-WWII - England, WAAF - Women’s Auxiliary Air Force & Women’s Territorial Service, 1939

Reel Number: 220883-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1939

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location:

TC Begins: 21:37:28

TC Ends: 21:46:33

Duration: 00:09:05

Pre-WWII - England, WAAF - Women’s Auxiliary Air Force & Women’s Territorial Service, 1939 Squad of female recruits march past camera, some still in civilian clothes. 21:37:48 Instructor & group of trainees next to small aircraft. CU Aircraft Log Book of Jean Batten. Women wheel Jean Batten’s biplane out. Recruits arrive on bicycles. Recruits march into Gordon Dove hangar. Biplane and mono-plane landing on grassy field. Woman scanning skies for returning planes. 21:39:58 Autogiro taking off. Women carrying out maintenance. Autogiro on ground, women carry out maintenance on autogiro. Recruits in civvies. 21:42:08 Land girls - stacking wheat, harvesting. Girl driving tractor. Girls on horse drawn wagon after work. 21:44;57 Packing and sorting apples. Picking tomatoes and cucumbers. 21:45:41 ATS girls enter school - in class being taught about engines. Girls harvest potatoes. Homefront; WW2;

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