[RAF barrage balloons, circa 1943]
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Title |
[RAF barrage balloons, circa 1943] |
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Date |
1943 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945 |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Other--British RAF |
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Item description |
Photo from an airplane of hundreds of barrage balloons floating in skies above England, circa 1943. |
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Veteran's name |
Smith, Sheila Katharina Rathbone |
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Veteran's biography |
Sheila K. Rathbone Smith (b. 1924) of Oxford, England, served as a barrage balloon operator with the British Women's Royal Air Force during World War II .
Sheila Katharina Rathbone Smith was born in England on 31 August 1924 to a British father and a German mother. She grew up in Hampstead and London, England, and attended high school in Oxford. Smith joined the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1942 and served as a barrage balloon operator in London and Newcastle for three years. She then worked in transportation, organizing the movement of British troops and prisoners of war in England. She was discharged in 1946 with the rank of leading aircraft woman (LACW) .
Smith modeled after the war, most notably for fashion designer Hardy Amies. She married in 1951 and relocated to the United States. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0317 Sheila K. Smith Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0317.6.005 |
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Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
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OCLC number |
900813340 |
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