{"title":"Women serving in the Royal Air Force (1938-1944)","authors":"Petra Kovács","doi":"10.32560/RK.2021.1.2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"During World War II not only men served in the Royal Air Force. Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, formed the Civil Air Guard for supporting the Royal Air Force. Until July 1939 between three and four thousand people got their pilot’s licence, and there were a further ten thousand undergoing training. Nine hundred of them were women.","PeriodicalId":382055,"journal":{"name":"Repüléstudományi Közlemények","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Repüléstudományi Közlemények","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32560/RK.2021.1.2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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During World War II not only men served in the Royal Air Force. Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, formed the Civil Air Guard for supporting the Royal Air Force. Until July 1939 between three and four thousand people got their pilot’s licence, and there were a further ten thousand undergoing training. Nine hundred of them were women.