Aircrew and Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Aircrew and Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Top - three pilots wearing tunics in front of Lancaster with nose art. Submitted with caption 'W/Cdr Guy Gibson (centre), S/Ldr John Searby (left) and S/Ldr Peter Ward-Hunt (right) in front of 106 Sqn Lancaster ED593, "Admiral Prune II". Syerston, March 1943, at the completion of W/Cdr Gibson's tour of operations with 106 Sqn'.
Bottom - an airwoman standing in front of building with bicycles propped against wall. Submitted with caption 'Section Officer Mary Stoffer, WAAF. The wife of P/O Stoffer, she was working in the plotting room at RAF Coningsby when he failed to return from a mission to Rostock, captaining Avro Manchester L7463, ZN-S on 23/24 April 1942. Annotated "Mary Stoffer" on rear of photograph'.

Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page

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