WW2 women: At a centre in Slough, Berkshire, England which provided training for work in war factories, Miss Ruby May is works on the tail component of an aircraft. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 women: A recruit to the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), takes notes during a lesson as part of her training in a classroom at a Royal Air Force base, possibly RAF Bridgnorth in Shropshire. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), In the Flying Control Room at RAF Dunholme, an aircraftwoman assists in the bringing of Lancasters back to base after a raid on Berlin. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 women: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Members of Bomber Command returning from a mine-laying operation on the enemy coastline are interviewed by a WAAF Intelligence Officer at RAF Lakenheath. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 women: Leading Aircraftwoman M Wishart, a meteorological clerk, takes a weather reading from a thermohygrograph at RAF Pitreavie Castle, Dunfermline, Scotland. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 women: A Women’s Voluntary Services’ Clothing Centre crowded with people who lost all their possessions during the previous night’s bombing. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women: The Wrens Guard of the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships range, paraded on the occasion of the First Lord of the Admiralty's visit to Grimsby. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women: A torpedo maintenance Wren carries the engine of a Fleet Air Arm torpedo at Crail Fleet Air Arm Station, Scotland. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women’s Air Ambulance was used to bring emergency cases in from outposts of the Air War in the Hebrides and the Shetlands. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Civil Defence: Woman firefighter dragging a body down stairs during practice for rescue work. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women: A Wren wireless telegraphist receiving a message from a ship on the other side of the Atlantic at the Royal Navy signal station at Greenock, Scotland. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women: A working party of Wrens ready to scrub out their boats at Plymouth. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Wrens: A torpedo being moved by a group of four Wrens (Women’s Navy) so that it could be loaded into a submarine, Portsmouth. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 WAAF: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF): Members of the WAAF and a RAF storeman packing items in a storage hangar in Stafford, England. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) women loading shells into the breech of a 25-pdr field gun at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit in Essex, 1943 IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women in men’s jobs: Women making eye splices in 4" wire. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

WW2 Women’s Land Army: Land girls harvesting wheat on the Sussex Downs. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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WW2 Dockworkers: Women shipbuilders give the signal for the lifting of steel girders at a shipyard in Britain. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Underground Railway Women, 1942. Mrs. L Philpotts (left) and Mrs. E Firth carry out essential maintenance work underneath the escalators at a London underground station. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Underground Railway Women, 1942. Miss Feely operates one of the large lifts which carry passengers from street level down to the platforms and back up to the street again. Note the posters on display behind her. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Underground Railway Women, 1942. Mrs. Hilda Slater cleans an underground window at a London station. Note the small window to help passengers tell where they are. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Underground Railway Women, 1942. Miss Hannah Casson operates the ticket machine in her booth at a London Underground station. Passengers queue up for their turn behind the glass. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

War worker Mrs. Wilkinson breaks down fuses at ROF Aycliffe (munitions factory), near Darlington, County Durham, England. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Members of the Womens' Voluntary Service (WVS) are preparing the canteen before leaving the depot to supply refreshments to shelterers emerging for work after a night in the shelter, London, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

women carpenters in ww2 England

Two women carpenters fix door hinges at a workshop producing huts for the army, somewhere in England, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Women working in a British dockyard, July 1941. One of the many jobs taken up by women as the men went off to fight. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

Two Wrens (Women’s Royal Navy) drivers who carried navy personnel on urgent work between bases in WW2. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

The milking team at a Norfolk dairy farm (two men and two women) smile for the camera in the sunshine, with their pails and milking stools at the ready during the war. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

A member of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) with two shire horses harrowing a field in Surrey, 1941. Farming was vital for supplying the country with food, and by 1944, there were 80,000 members of the WLA. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women