Women must serve too

25th March 1941: The ordeal of the military selection process and medical assessment applies to women as much as men

Over 180,000 women would seve in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, during the war in a variety of support roles from photographic interpretation to aircraft mechanic.

At nineteen Joan Wyndam was bored of her life as an arts student and volunteer nurse. She had had a place at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) but that had closed ‘…