WAAAF


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WAAAF

(formerly) abbreviation for
(Military) Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
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Two contemporary official publications vividly reveal the pragmatic femininity of WAAAF experience.
However Jean Lawson's unpublished War Diary of a WAAAF, (25) a memoir of officer training in Melbourne, is more ambiguous.
The education and training she instituted in the WAAAF was clearly meant to overcome women's lack of general knowledge and foster in them a well-founded sense of independence.
She carried small note books and made sketches of WAAAF and RAAF personnel at times when there was a lot of waiting to be done.
Two of Elsa's colleagues, Gai Bartley (nee Fairbairn) and Pearl Batchelor, who served with her in her first years of the WAAAF, have no recollection of her painting.
Besides bad language all three women did indeed find the WAAAF to be rough.