NigG (your #259),
...Yet, unlike my father (of similar vintage), you really are on the ball. Arthur would have been flummoxed by the term 'misogyny'... and I, even, at 62, struggle to spell the damn thing!...
Arthur had no need of the word: it had not entered the everyday language.
... So neither marriage nor having a child should now interfere with a woman's Service career...
On what planet are we living ? We're trying to run an Air Force here ! Can't anyone see that that proposition makes an unanswerable case for not having them in front-line service
at all ?. In an auxiliary rôle, certainly. We had our WAAF (Women's
Auxiliary Air Force): the Luftwaffe its
Luftwaffehilferinnen . Worked well enough on the day.
Lovely pics of a vanished era ! In No.2, what is that tripod-like affair in front of the "Hart" ? Something to do with the Hucks Starter, perhaps ?
...Sure enough, below was a Landau. In it were King George V and Queen Mary...
A hanging offence now ! We can only marvel at what they could get away with on those sunlit days of the thirties.
Danny.