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Blue plaque unveiled at home of 'Spitfire girl', Benson, Oxfordshire, UK - 25 May 2024
A blue plaque has been unveiled in Benson to commemorate the life of one of the "Spitfire Girls" of the Second World War. Freydis Sharland was a pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary and flew planes between factories and airfields as part of the war effort. She was one of about 160 women working for the ATA and after the war earned her RAF pilot's wings. The plaque was unveiled at her former home, Chalkstone Cottage in Brook Street, where she lived for 33 years. The ATA was created at the start of the war to ferry new, damaged and repaired aircraft without radios or instrument flying equipment. Between 1943 and 1945, Mrs Sharland flew 38 different types of aircraft, including Wellington bombers, Vickers, De Havilland Mosquito combat aircraft and Supermarine Spitfires. On one mission she flew 4,000 miles to deliver a Hawker Tempest V to Karachi in Pakistan but on arrival was denied access to the officers' mess because she was a woman.重要信息
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