aircraftswoman
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(ABOVE LEFT) AIRCRAFTSWOMAN SECOND CLASS 1943.

A PTE(P) soldier is equivalent to an Able Seaman in the Royal Australian Navy and a Leading Aircraftsman/Leading Aircraftswoman in the Royal Australian Air Force.

The Royal Australian Air Force also uses both aircraftman and aircraftwoman.

Its bombing up had been completed and Aircraftwoman Jenkins had driven the bomb-train clear of the aircraft's belly.

Senior Aircraftman/Senior Aircraftwoman with a triple-bladed propeller.

Leading Aircraftman/Leading Aircraftwoman with a double-bladed propeller (this had previously been only a trade classification and not a rank)

Jean Lee (aircraftwoman) - the only Chinese Canadian woman to serve (as a WD) during the Second World War.

Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Hannah Szenes, Woman Auxiliary Air Force and SOE.

Senior Aircraftwoman Serena Helen RICHFORD .

Senior Aircraftwoman Debby WALKER (L8237427), Royal Air Force.

Sonya Butt joined up the moment she became eligible, to the very day: 14 November 1941, becoming 454240 Aircraftwoman (ACW) Butt.

The churchyard contains five war graves, containing four soldiers of World War I, and an Aircraftwoman of World War II.

On 19 November 1940, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), and as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class, she was sent to be trained as a wireless operator.

During World War II, on 15 April 1942, Forshaw enlisted in the WAAAF and was honourably discharged as an Aircraftwoman on 1 March 1943.

Leading aircraftman (LAC) or leading aircraftwoman (LACW) is a rank in some air forces, between aircraftman and senior aircraftman and having a NATO rank code of OR-2.

"It was as if Princess Diana had vanished from her home and had been discovered by the press enlisted in the ranks of the RAF as Aircraftwoman Spencer, doing drill, washing her own undies," Korda writes.

In 1943, she enlisted in the British Army in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class and began her training in Egypt as a paratrooper for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Aircraftman First Class Albert Singleton, an Officers' Mess waiter, did that evening, with the help of Aircraftwoman Janet Marsden, motor-transport driver, steal from the aforesaid Mess one seven-pound tin of butter, three seven-pound tins of marmalade, eighteen pounds of bacon and twenty-eight eggs.