British women of the Air Transport Auxiliary, c 1942
May 18, 2013, 3:00pm / 80
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Women operating milling machines on bolts at Remington Arms & Ammunition plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut
May 16, 2013, 12:00pm / 13
Australian nurses presenting their gift—9 ambulances—to the British Red Cross in Palestine, 16 September 1940
(Source: loc.gov)
May 07, 2013, 12:00pm / 21
Telegraph officers standing before destroyed buildings of RAF Biggin Hill thanks to a German air raid. During the raid, all three women (Sgt Joan E. Mortimer, Flight Officer Elspeth C. Henderson and Sgt Helen Turner of the WAAF) stayed at their posts despite the threat to their lives, 1 Sept 1940.
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Workers assembling 37mm armor-piercing shells prior to heat treating, Feb 1942
(Source: loc.gov)
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