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    The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up at the start of the Second World War with headquarters at White Waltham Airfield...
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    The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were referred to as WAAFs (/ˈwæfs/), was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during...
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    the auxiliary services. These were the ATS, the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Women's Transport Service...
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    Margaret Fairweather (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    British aviator and one of the first eight women members of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). She was the first woman to fly a Supermarine Spitfire. Fairweather...
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    Service Women's Auxiliary Air Force Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Home Defence Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) The Royal Auxiliary Air Force was originally...
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    Jacqueline Cochran (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    volunteered her services to the Royal Air Force. For several months she worked for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), recruiting qualified women pilots...
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  • Nancy Stratford (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    1919) is an American aviator. She flew warplanes in the civilian Air Transport Auxiliary in Great Britain during World War II and was later a pioneering...
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    Helen Kerly (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    came to notice as a pilot who delivered aircraft in the civilian Air Transport Auxiliary including Spitfires during the Second World War, with the rank...
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    Anna Leska (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    was one of the two first Polish woman pilots to join the British Air Transport Auxiliary, the other being Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska. Anna Leska was...
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  • as having a political agenda. During World War II, the British Air Transport Auxiliary started flying into Europe after D-Day and their pilots, who were...
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