Women now comprise more than 25 per cent of service personnel in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and there are no restrictions on what they’re allowed to do. But it wasn’t always like this. In Episode 31 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown the clothes and hears the stories of some of the female pioneers, including members of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) that was formed in World War 2.
Collected. Episode 12. Christmas during wartime
collected-011 Women and War
Collected - 010 Damien Parer and the Oscar
Collected - 009 Anzac biscuits and secret cookbooks
Collected - 008 Jim's POW loin cloth
Collected - 007 D-Day and the Australian Connection
Collected - 006 Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits
Collected - 005 Music and the First World War
Collected - 004 Australia's military tattoos
Collected - 003 The Bushmaster
Collected - 002 A mother's love and memory
Collected - 001 Treaty of Versailles
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