Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, UK January 10, 1940.
The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organization set up during the Second World War and headquartered at White Waltham Airfield that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, maintenance units (MU's), scrap yards, active service squadrons and airfields, but not to naval aircraft carriers.