and d’Erlanger’s dislike of women in trousers
fear of disfigurement
flies Hurricane
on life in London
on life at Hamble
on flying heavy planes
and speed of planes
at crash site
flies to Prague
and Diana Barnato’s landing in damaged Typhoon
on sexist prejudice
Reid, Mrs Ogden
Reitsch, Hanna
Rhodes, Cecil
Richey, Helen
Roberts, Seaman Nicholas
Romania: Polish refugees in
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: and Lend Lease agreement,
and Jacqueline Cochran
and Harris’s request for ferry pilots
Ann Wood’s pride in
death
lends USS Wasp to Britain
Royal Aeronautical Society
Royal Air Force: opposes women pilots,
pilots used for ferrying
in Battle of Britain
bombing campaign
Runciman, Leslie
Runciman, (Sir) Steven
Runciman, Walter, 1st Viscount (of Doxford)
Sale-Barker, Audrey (later Countess of Selkirk): social life,
pre-war flying adventures
character and appearance
in Ferry Pilot film
marriage to Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
attends Mary Nicholson’s funeral
pre-flight nerves
and winding up of ATA
Salmon, Honor Pomeroy (née Pitman)
Sandoz, Roberta (later Leveaux): on self-control,
background
recruited by Cochran
travels to England on Mosdale
life in London
marriage
on British-US relations
on Dorothy Bragg’s attachment to Beatty
on flying through cloud
and death of Mary Nicholson
on equal pay for women
at war’s end
Satterthwaite, Tony
Sayer, Betty
Schenker, First Officer Stefan Karpeles
Schiaparelli, Elsa
Schiaparelli, Gogo
Schuurman, Louise
Scott, Alexander
Scott, Charles
Scott, C. W. A.
Scotter, Squadron Leader Gordon
Selfridge, Gordon, Jr
Selkirk, Audrey, Countess of see Sale-Barker, Audrey
Severn Railway Bridge
Sharland, Freydis see Leaf, Freydis
Shelley, Norman
Shelmerdine, Sir Francis
Shottesbrooke, Berkshire
Shuckman, Ann (Margaret Fairweather’s daughter)
Sicre, Betty see Lussier, Betty
Sicre, Ricardo
Sikorski, General Wladislaw
Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later 1st Viscount Thurso)
Sloper, Captain
Smith, Constance Babington
Smith, Harry
Smith, Katie (Kay) Stanley (later Hirsch)
Solent air ferry
Sorour, Jackie (later Moggridge): admires Amy Johnson,
joins ATA
flies to Kidlington through cloud
learns of Amy Johnson’s death
on flying Spitfires
arrives in England from Cape Town
breaks ankle in parachute jump
performs headstands before flights
romance and marriage with Reg Moggridge
lands damaged Mitchell
trip to and from South Africa
intercepts V1 flying bomb in Tempest
flies Spitfires to Burma via Bandar Abbas
post-war career and death
Woman Pilot
sound barrier: women break
Southampton
Spain, Don
Spicer, Dorothy
Spitfires (fighters): flown by women,
difficulties on ground
performance and appeal
built at Southampton
delivered to Malta
flown to Burma
Stag Lane, near Edgware
Stalin, Josef
Stephenson, Sir William
Stevenson, Grace
Stitch, Wilhelmina
Stockham family
Strait, Whitney
Strickland, Claude
Tatler (magazine)
Tempest (fighter)
Tensing Norgay
They Flew Alone (film)
Times, The: on ATA,
on USA instructional pamphlet for servicemen in Britain
Truman, Harry S.
Typhoon (fighter)
Ultra intelligence
United States of America: volunteers serve in ATA
aircraft production
British view of
view of British
misogyny in
’Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain’
United States Army Air Corps
Upavon, Wiltshire
Uxbridge
V1 flying bomb
Vianchi, Manuel
Viles, Eric
Volkersz, Veronica: background,
first flies jet
on ATA uniform
on flying Spitfires
Volkersz, Veronica – cont. drives ambulance in London,
on breaking ATA rules
and death of Honor Salmon
witnesses accidents of Thunderbolts
and outbreak of war
at Whitchurch
flies planes to Asia
Wakefield, Charles ‘Cheers’, Viscount
Walker, Anne
Walker, Wing Commander Derek, killed
Ward, Irene
Wasp, USS (carrier)
Way Ahead, The (film)
Way to the Stars, The (film)
Welch, Ann: gliding, meets Hess in Germany
death
service in ATA
flies Spitfire to Colerne in low visibility
on Ferry Pilots’ Notes
commitment to war effort
engagement
Whitchurch, near Bristol
White Waltham, Berkshire: as ATA headquarters canteen
postings to
Lettice Curtis at
post-war pageant
and winding up of ATA
Whitehurst, Arthur (’Doc’)
Whittle, Frank
Wilberforce, Marion
Witts, Christopher
Wojtulanis, Barbara (i.e. Stefania)
Woman’s Journal
women: early restrictions on flying prejudices against
emancipation
lower earnings
first fly fighter aircraft
and homosexuality
as prospective combat pilots
fly heavy aircraft
equal pay for
Gower recommends flying for
excluded from flying jobs
Women’s Air Service Pilots (WASPs of USA)
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), ATA pilots recruited from
Wood, Ann: joins ATA, death
view of Britain and British
takes up flying as livelihood
recruited by Cochran
travels to England on Indochinois
at Ratcliffe Hall
flies Spitfires
friendship with Jordan
flies under Severn Railway Bridge
loyalty to Cochran
social life in London
background
marriage to Kelly
status in ATA
on flying risks
meets Eleanor Roosevelt
on missing Wesley Ford
and Mary Nicholson’s funeral
on Colman’s death
and Pauline Gower’s appointment to BOAC board
takes holiday in USA
lands in Greenland on return flight from holiday
and Normandy invasion
seeks work at end of war
and winding up of ATA
Wood, Betty Taylor
Wood, Mrs Oliver
Wood, Vernon
Woods, Captain
Yeager, General Charles (’Chuck’),
Zajac, General Jozef
Zerbel, Mary
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