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Air Transport Auxiliary women to be honoured

The surviving men and women from the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Second World War are to be recognised with a new award, the Government announced yesterday.

The ATA's pilots, which included female flyers known as Spitfire women, delivered more than 300,000 aircraft to frontline airfields.

The civilian unit, founded in 1938, had a remarkable record and very few planes were lost or damaged, although 173 pilots and eight flight engineers were killed, including Amy Johnson, the pioneering female aviator.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)