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Photograph MED0098 Second World War, 1939-1945Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. Three members of the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force, at work on their typewriters.

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Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. Typewriter keys rattle like castanets as four well-trained and efficient members of the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force carry out their duties.
Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. Three members of the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force, at work on their typewriters.

Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. Members of the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force, bright and early for the day's work, line the side ready to leave their houseboat billet, named Lotus, moored in the Ri

Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. A happy South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force member in her smart uniform framed in a lifebelt of their houseboat billet, named Lotus, moored in the River Nile.

Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. The dining room on the houseboat billet moored on the River Nile and occupied by South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). The houseboys (known as suffragis) serve the W

Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. 'Mohamed, where's my laundry?' A South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force member talks to a houseboy (known as a suffragi) on a houseboat billet moored on the River Nile. The s

Cairo, Egypt. c. 1942. "Och, I come from Bonnie Scotland! I do my own!" says one of the members of the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force who occupy a houseboat billet moored on the River Nile.
