Saturday 11 July 2015

Cloudbusters-Post 13.

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First of two posts that take a step back in time to the 1940's featuring real heroines
2. WASPS (Womens Airforce Service Pilots)
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5.Phyllis Ryder


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7. Diana Barnato Walker- more about her in Spitfire Women documentary (guess you can only see it n UK though :( )
8.Maureen Dunlop de Popp who is also featured in documentary
9. "The Night Witches" -became aware of them from a very age reading Johnny Red-Tom Tully the writer must of done his research ...

 Well worth purchasing the hardback volumes -(there's three so far )  for Joe Colquhouns artwork alone -an amazing artist.
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Photo from this flickr gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_halling/
Inspired by Battle of Britain flyover yesterday and the documentary I saw last night  - availiable  I guess only in United Kingdom and just for a short while-if it appears on youtube or elsewhere I'll re-edit post.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tw1m1/spitfire-women

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