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  Lilian Bader [.pdf file}
joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1941and wrote about her experiences and the difficulties of trying to join up.
  
RAF Certificate of Discharge [.pdf file}
Lilian Bader's official discharge from the WAAFs, 1944, when she was expecting her first baby.
 		  

Factfile

Women everywhere played important roles in the war effort. Some continued to work at home or on the land; others joined the armed forces, trained as nurses or volunteered.
 

Extract: West Indian Women in the Armed Forces in Britain [.pdf file]

Listen to the sound extract... Lilian Bader, (left) describes her work as a WAAF Aircraft Instrument Repairer (sound extract) Transcript (.pdf)

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