![]() ![]() This is how Worrals was 'born'.įlight officer Joan Worralson, then just 18, flies her first flight for the W.A.A.F., the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the 'women's section' of the RAF, between October 1940 and September 1941 in Girl's Own Paper (hereafter GOP), assisted by her slightly younger colleague and best friend Betty Lovell, nicknamed Frecks. ![]() Because the popularity of Johns' fighter pilot Biggles in the thirties had not escaped the attention of the British Ministry of War, this organization called upon Johns to create a female war pilot as well. So there is a need for war flying propaganda aimed at young, adventurous women. Worrals As from October 1940 Biggles has a female colleague! Because it is 'all hands on deck' for the RAF at the outbreak of World War II, the air force decides to recruit female as well as male war pilots. ![]()
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