POLISH PILOTS IN ROYAL All! FCIICE: Pilots of Poland's Air Force fought iti their own country, then in France, and are now conflkiuing the fight as an operational squadron of the British Royal Air Polish armourers re-arming the eight guns of i Hurricane fighter, just returned from a successful air battle.
BRITAIN'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT GIRLS: Although Britain's women's army, the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) was originally recruited for non-combatant duties, the girls are now taking on duties of a more dangerous nature, particularly in anti-aircraft defence. In the picture a group of A.T.S. girls from a British Northern Command training depot are receiving instruction, at a gun-site, in the use of a range-finder
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 50, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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112POLISH PILOTS IN ROYAL All! FCIICE: Pilots of Poland's Air Force fought iti their own country, then in France, and are now conflkiuing the fight as an operational squadron of the British Royal Air Polish armourers re-arming the eight guns of i Hurricane fight- er, just returned from a successful air battle. BRITAIN'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT GIRLS: Although Britain's women's army, the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) was originally recruited for non-combatant duties, the girls are now taking on duties of a more dangerous nature, particularly in anti-aircraft defence. In the picture a group of A.T.S. girls from a British Northern Command training depot are receiving instruction, at a gun-site, in the use of a range-finder Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 50, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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