ELSIE WHITEMAN & KATHLEEN CHURCH, former teashop owners turned factory girls:

We have very much enjoyed the opportunity we have had of mixing with working-class people on absolutely equal terms.”

BELOW WAAF radar operators plotting aircraft on the cathode-ray tube monitor. August 1945

ABOVE Air Maintenance Wrens assembling an oil tank on a fighter plane. March 1943 OPPOSITE Wrens testing a turret gun. September 1942