Lettice Curtis obituary | Second world war
Second world warObituaryLettice Curtis obituaryPioneering pilot who ferried nearly 1,500 aircraft during the second world warIn 1942, during a "hustle tour" of Britain, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the US president, arrived, with Clementine Churchill, wife of the prime minister, at White Waltham Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) station. It was late October, and rain poured down on Berkshire. Sheltering under the wing of a four-engined Halifax heavy bomber was Lettice Curtis. Thus did the first lady shake hands with one of the most formidable of the 166 female ATA pilots who, like their male colleagues, delivered warplanes around Britain, and beyond, between 1940 and 1945.
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