Spitfire Women of World War II (30 page)
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Authors: Giles Whittell
- Halifax (bomber): Lettice Curtis flies
- Hamble, Hampshire: ;
- ATA women at
- and Normandy invasion
- closed down at war's end
- ATA women at
- Handley, Captain Walter
- Hardy, Thomas
- Harmsworth, Lorna
- Harriman, Averell
- Harriman, Cathy
- Harris, Air Marshal Arthur T.
- Harrison, Dr (Winnie Crossley's father)
- Harrison, Helen
- Haslemere
, HMS - Hatfield, Hertfordshire
- Hawkes, Frank
- Heath, Mary, Lady
- Henderson, Captain R.H.
- Henshaw, Alex
- Heron-Maxwell, Naomi (
later
Allen) - Hess, Rudolf
- Hewitt, Abe
- Hewitt, Dorothy
see
Bragg, Dorothy - Hill, Bridget
- Hillary, (Sir) Edmund
- Hinkler, Bert
- Hiron family
- Hiroshima
- Hirsch, Katie
see
Smith, Katie - Hirth, Wolf
- Hitler, Adolf
- Hospitals' Air Pageant
- Hucknall, near Nottingham
- Hudson (bomber)
- Hughes, Howard
- Hughes, Joan: at Hatfield publicity event,
- flying experience
- flies Hurricanes
- in
Ferry Pilot
film, - resists romantic attachments
- flies four-engined aircraft
- later career and death
- flying experience
- Humphreys, Jack
- Hurricanes (fighters)
- Indochinois
, SS - Irwin, Zita
- Israel: builds up air force
- Japan: surrenders (1945)
- jet planes
- Johns, First Officer Gwynn
- Johnson, Amy: death;
- depicted in film
They Flew Alone - in ATA
- solo flight to Australia (1930)
- background
- biography
- romances
- learns to fly
- long-distance flights
- public life and celebrity
- hysterectomy
- marriage to Mollison
- divorce
- works for Solent air ferry
- friendship with Pauline Gower
- passed over as head of ATA; joins ATA
- never flies Spitfire
- friendship with Rosemary Rees
- taught by Valentyne
- on Lady Bailey's lack of planning
- depicted in film
- Johnson, Ciss (Amy's mother)
- Johnson, Evelyn (Amy's aunt)
- Johnson, Irene (Amy's sister)
- Johnson, Molly (Amy's sister)
- Johnson, William (Amy's father)
- Jordan, Johnnie
- Joyce, William ('Lord Haw Haw')
- Julius Caesar
, SS
- Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm
- Keith-Jopp, Betty: escapes from sinking plane
- on uncle's missing arm and eye
- joins ATA
- later career
- blamed for losing plane
- on uncle's missing arm and eye
- Keith-Jopp, Stewart
- Kelly, Jackson
- Kemp, W.D.
- Kendrick, Louis
- Kent, Prince George, Duke of
- Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
- Kidlington, Oxfordshire
- King, Alison: and Leska's escape from Poland,
- on Gore and Bennett's visit to tailor
- on women first flying Hurricane
- on image of American women
- describes Hamble
- and Welch's safe delivery of Spitfire to Colerne
- erases names of dead pilots
- and Jackie Sorour's departure for South Africa
- and Normandy invasion
- on retirement of women at war's end
- on Gore and Bennett's visit to tailor
- Kirkbride
- Knebworth, Edward Anthony James Lytton, Viscount
- Lady Driver, The
(magazine) - Laker, Freddie
- Lancaster (bomber)
- Lang, Dora
- Lankshear, Barbara
- Lawrence, T.E. ('Lawrence of Arabia')
- Leaf family
- Leaf, Freydis (
later
Sharland) - Leaf, John
- Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford
- Lend Lease agreement (US-Britain)
- Leska, Anna: serves in ATA,
- escapes from Poland to Britain
- marriage
- feud with Duhalde
- escapes from Poland to Britain
- Leveaux, Peter
- Leveaux, Roberta
see
Sandoz, Roberta - Levett, Gordon
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Lockyer, Flight Lieutenant Thomas
- Lombard, Carole
- London: Blitz; wartime life in
- London Aeroplane Club
- Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of
- Lorenz company (Germany)
- Lossiemouth, Scotland
- Louisiana Women's Weekly
- Love, Nancy Harkness
- Lowenstein, Bobby
- Lussier, Betty (
later
Sicre) - Luton: ATA training centre
- Lysander (aircraft)
- MacArthur, General Douglas
- McKinley, Harry
- MacMillan, Captain A.R.O.
- Macmillan, Audrey
- Mallory, George Leigh
- Malta
- Markham, Beryl
- Marshall, Joan
- Martha, Princess of Norway
- Martin, (Sir) James (Jimmy)
- Mier, Sas de
- Miles Magisters (trainers)
- Milstead, Violet
- Missouri
, USS - Mitchell (bomber)
- Mitchell, Reginald
- Mitkiewicz-Zoltek, Colonel
- Moggridge, Jackie
see
Sorour, Jackie - Moggridge, Joy
- Moggridge, Lieutenant Reg
- Mollison, Jim: character,
- marries Amy Johnson
- divorce
- at White Waltham
- Naomi Allen meets
- flies with Diana Barnato
- marries Amy Johnson
- Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 1st Viscount
- Montreal
- Moody, Captain Hump
- Morgan, Flight Engineer Bob
- Morris, John
- Mosdale
, SS - Mosquitoes (fighter-bombers)
- Murrow, Edward R.
- Mursell, Sir Peter
- Narssarssuaq, Greenland
- National Men's Defence League
- Neagle, (Dame) Anna
- Nerissa, SS
- New York Herald Tribune
: Opal Anderson sues - New York Times
- News of the World
- Nicholson, Mary: travels to England on
Mosdale
,- death
- death
- Niven, David
- Normandy invasion (June 1944)
- North Africa: campaign in
- O'Dea, Lieutenant Henry
- Odlum, Floyd
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
- Olaf, Crown Prince of Norway
- Orlemans, Pierre
- Page, Sir Arthur
- Page, Joan
- Park, Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith
- Patterson, Gabrielle
- Peenemunde, Germany
- Percival Proctor (aircraft)
- Pétain, Marshal Philippe
- Peter, King of Yugoslavia
- Philips and Powis School of Flying, Woodley, near Reading
- Pierce, Winnie
- Pilsudska, Jadwiga: escapes to England from Poland
- on Leska
- family background
- on flying Spitfires
- Biddle meets
- life in London
- marriage
- denies performing aerobatics
- studies architecture at Liverpool
- on Leska
- Pilsudski, Marshal Jozef
- Pocklington, Yorkshire
- Poland: invaded and occupied (1939),
- women fliers serve in ATA
- women fliers serve in ATA
- Porter, First Officer Ronald
- Prestwick, Scotland
- Providence
(trawler)
- radio navigation
- Raines, Hazel
- Ramsay, First Officer Diana: crashes Tempest
- Rangitata
, SS - Ratcliffe Hall, Leicestershire
- Raven Rock Flying School, Portsmouth, Ohio
- Rees, Sir John
- Rees, Rosemary: background,
- wit
- flying experience
- visits pre-war Germany
- wealth
- on pressure on women pilots
- and d'Erlanger's dislike of women in trousers
- fear of disfigurement
- flies Hurricane
- on life in London
- on life at Hamble
- on flying heavy planes
- and speed of planes
- at crash site
- flies to Prague
- and Diana Barnato's landing in damaged Typhoon
- on sexist prejudice
- wit
- Reid, Mrs Ogden
- Reitsch, Hanna
- Rhodes, Cecil
- Richey, Helen
- Roberts, Seaman Nicholas
- Romania: Polish refugees in
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.: and Lend Lease agreement,
- and Jacqueline Cochran
- and Harris's request for ferry pilots
- Ann Wood's pride in
- death
- lends USS
Wasp
to Britain
- and Jacqueline Cochran
- Royal Aeronautical Society
- Royal Air Force: opposes women pilots,
- pilots used for ferrying
- in Battle of Britain
- bombing campaign
- pilots used for ferrying
- Runciman, Leslie
- Runciman, (Sir) Steven
- Runciman, Walter, 1st Viscount (of Doxford)
- Sale-Barker, Audrey (
later
Countess of Selkirk): social life,- pre-war flying adventures
- character and appearance
- in
Ferry
Pilot
film - marriage to Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
- attends Mary Nicholson's funeral
- pre-flight nerves
- and winding up of ATA
- pre-war flying adventures
- Salmon, Honor Pomeroy (
née
Pitman) - Sandoz, Roberta (
later
Leveaux): on self-control,- background
- recruited by Cochran
- travels to England on
Mosdale - life in London
- marriage
- on British-US relations
- on Dorothy Bragg's attachment to Beatty
- on flying through cloud
- and death of Mary Nicholson
- on equal pay for women
- at war's end
- background
- Satterthwaite, Tony
- Sayer, Betty
- Schenker, First Officer Stefan Karpeles
- Schiaparelli, Elsa
- Schiaparelli, Gogo
- Schuurman, Louise
- Scott, Alexander
- Scott, Charles
- Scott, C. W. A.
- Scotter, Squadron Leader Gordon
- Selfridge, Gordon, Jr
- Selkirk, Audrey, Countess of
see
Sale-Barker, Audrey - Severn Railway Bridge
- Sharland, Freydis see Leaf, Freydis
- Shelley, Norman
- Shelmerdine, Sir Francis
- Shottesbrooke, Berkshire
- Shuckman, Ann (Margaret Fairweather's daughter)
- Sicre, Betty
see
Lussier, Betty - Sicre, Ricardo
- Sikorski, General Wladislaw
- Sinclair, Sir Archibald (
later
1st Viscount Thurso) - Sloper, Captain
- Smith, Constance Babington
- Smith, Harry
- Smith, Katie (Kay) Stanley (
later
Hirsch) - Solent air ferry
- Sorour, Jackie (
later
Moggridge): admires Amy Johnson,- joins ATA
- flies to Kidlington through cloud
- learns of Amy Johnson's death
- on flying Spitfires
- arrives in England from Cape Town
- breaks ankle in parachute jump
- performs headstands before flights
- romance and marriage with Reg Moggridge
- lands damaged Mitchell
- trip to and from South Africa
- intercepts V1 flying bomb in Tempest
- flies Spitfires to Burma via Bandar Abbas
- post-war career and death
- Woman Pilot
- joins ATA
- sound barrier: women break
- Southampton
- Spain, Don
- Spicer, Dorothy
- Spitfires (fighters): flown by women,
- difficulties on ground
- performance and appeal
- built at Southampton
- delivered to Malta
- flown to Burma
- difficulties on ground
- Stag Lane, near Edgware
- Stalin, Josef
- Stephenson, Sir William
- Stevenson, Grace
- Stitch, Wilhelmina
- Stockham family
- Strait, Whitney
- Strickland, Claude
- Tatler
(magazine) - Tempest (fighter)
- Tensing Norgay
- They Flew Alone
(film) - Times, The
: on ATA,- on USA instructional pamphlet for servicemen in Britain
- on USA instructional pamphlet for servicemen in Britain
- Truman, Harry S.
- Typhoon (fighter)
- Ultra intelligence
- United States of America: volunteers serve in ATA
- aircraft production
- British view of
- view of British
- misogyny in
- 'Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain'
- aircraft production
- United States Army Air Corps
- Upavon, Wiltshire
- Uxbridge
- V1 flying bomb
- Vianchi, Manuel
- Viles, Eric
- Volkersz, Veronica: background,
- first flies jet
- on ATA uniform
- on flying Spitfires
- first flies jet
- Volkersz, Veronica â
cont
. drives ambulance in London,- on breaking ATA rules
- and death of Honor Salmon
- witnesses accidents of Thunderbolts
- and outbreak of war
- at Whitchurch
- flies planes to Asia
- on breaking ATA rules
- Wakefield, Charles âCheers', Viscount
- Walker, Anne
- Walker, Wing Commander Derek,
- killed
- killed
- Ward, Irene
- Wasp
, USS (carrier) - Way Ahead, The
(film) - Way to the Stars, The
(film) - Welch, Ann: gliding,
- meets Hess in Germany
- death
- service in ATA
- flies Spitfire to Colerne in low visibility
- on Ferry Pilots' Notes
- commitment to war effort
- engagement
- meets Hess in Germany
- Whitchurch, near Bristol
- White Waltham, Berkshire: as ATA headquarters
- canteen
- postings to
- Lettice Curtis at
- post-war pageant
- and winding up of ATA
- canteen
- Whitehurst, Arthur ('Doc')
- Whittle, Frank
- Wilberforce, Marion
- Witts, Christopher
- Wojtulanis, Barbara (i.e. Stefania)
- Woman's Journal
- women: early restrictions on flying
- prejudices against
- emancipation
- lower earnings
- first fly fighter aircraft
- and homosexuality
- as prospective combat pilots
- fly heavy aircraft
- equal pay for
- Gower recommends flying for
- excluded from flying jobs
- prejudices against
- Women's Air Service Pilots (WASPs of USA)
- Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF),
- ATA pilots recruited from
- ATA pilots recruited from
- Wood, Ann: joins ATA,
- death
- view of Britain and British
- takes up flying as livelihood
- recruited by Cochran
- travels to England on
Indochinois - at Ratcliffe Hall
- flies Spitfires
- friendship with Jordan
- flies under Severn Railway Bridge
- loyalty to Cochran
- social life in London
- background
- marriage to Kelly
- status in ATA
- on flying risks
- meets Eleanor Roosevelt
- on missing Wesley Ford
- and Mary Nicholson's funeral
- on Colman's death
- and Pauline Gower's appointment to BOAC board
- takes holiday in USA
- lands in Greenland on return flight from holiday
- and Normandy invasion
- seeks work at end of war
- and winding up of ATA
- death
- Wood, Betty Taylor
- Wood, Mrs Oliver
- Wood, Vernon
- Woods, Captain
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