Young woman being sworn in to WAAAF
The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) provided support to the Air Force in non-combat roles. Women served in a wide range of technical jobs - radio, ground control and aircraft maintenance - which would have been off-limits to them in peacetime. The poster in the background emphasizes the solidarity of Commonwealth nations in the war.
Photographer unknown, c.1942
Accession number: H98.105/476
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection. Gift of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 1976.
