Table of Contents

Introduction; Women and aviation 1918--1939; Need versus convention September 1939--February 1941; Formation and its problems February--June 1941; Future in doubt June--December 1942; Australia's "gravest hour" January--May 1942; Manpower control tightens June--December 1942; Legality and consolidation January--December 1943; Not if but when the war ends January--December 1944; At last victory! Then disbandment January 1945--December 1947