Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower Fahie (22 July 1910 – 2 March 1947) was a British pilot and writer who established the women's branch of the Air Transport...
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"Johnnie" Mollison, from which Worrals' name is presumed to derive—and Pauline Gower.[citation needed] The first six books were written and set during the...
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rose to first officer under the command of her friend and fellow pilot Pauline Gower. Her former husband also flew for the ATA throughout the war. Johnson...
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musician for rock band Cog and Flynn's brother Mark Gower (born 1978), English footballer Pauline Gower (1910–1947), British pilot and writer, head of the...
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and Powis School of Flying, offering flying lessons at 12s 6d each. Pauline Gower, later Commander of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary, earned her...
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in the final examination of the Law Society. His younger daughter, Pauline Gower, headed the female branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the...
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"Attagirls") had a high profile in the press. On 14 November 1939 Commander Pauline Gower was given the task of organising the women's section of the ATA. The...
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radar station. She was recruited to the ATA by the Women's Commandant, Pauline Gower in July 1940. Moggridge was the youngest of the female pilots at the...
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met Pauline Gower who was studying for her commercial pilot's licence and who became her friend. In 1931, they started a business together. Gower was...
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Patterson, Margaret Fairweather and Rosemary Rees, under the command of Pauline Gower. These women were tasked with the hazardous job of ferrying all types...
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Margaret Fairweather, and Winifred Crossley Fair, under the command of Pauline Gower. One of their first tasks was to deliver eight Tiger Moth planes to...
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Wilberforce, they were known as the First Eight, all appointed by Commandant Pauline Gower. The role was so new that she had to design and then get a tailor to...
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Burns (structural engineer), Dorothy Pearse (aircraft engineer) and Pauline Gower (head of the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).[citation...
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the 1920s, Fremlin. An early reference to the gremlin is in aviator Pauline Gower's 1938 novel The ATA: Women with Wings, where Scotland is described as...
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Spitfire and was one of the original eight female pilots selected by Pauline Gower to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Margaret was killed in 1944 whilst...
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Fairweather, Gabrielle Patterson, and Winifred Crossley Fair, commanded by Pauline Gower. Major Phyllis Dunning (née Phyllis Doreen Hooper) becomes the first...
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Five ATA flyers Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Audrey Sale-Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower in 1942 by an Airspeed Oxford trainer...
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racer Aileen Marson (1939) Betty Jardine (1945), actress Pauline Gower (1947), married name Pauline Fahie, a pilot who headed the female branch of the Air...
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Gower (born 1957), cricketer Pauline Gower (1910–1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War Sir Robert Gower,...
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Yeager, USA (Citation of Honorable Mention) Jacqueline Cochran, USA; Pauline Gower, UK (posthumously) (Citation of Honorable Mention) Vice Admiral Charles...
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wardens and air raid workers, Gabain produced a portrait of Captain Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxiliary. In 1945, she produced a series of portraits...
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Patterson, Marion Wilberforce, and Rosemary Rees, under the command of Pauline Gower. She flew many planes including Tiger Moths and Hurricanes, and was...
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Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather and Rosemary Rees, under the command of Pauline Gower. She served from 1940 to 1945. She became second in command at Ferry...
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appointed to the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1940 by the Commandant Pauline Gower. By the end of the war, she had more than 1000 flying hours and had...
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pilots in front of their De Havilland Tiger Moths (right to left): Pauline Gower (Commandant), Margaret Cunnison (obscured), Winifred Crossley, Hon.Margaret...
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Helwys Publishing, Inc. p. 80. ISBN 1-57312-191-6. Hill, Alison (2022). Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women. Cheltenham. ISBN 978-1-80399-148-1...
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over-confident pilot at times but well liked by her ATA colleagues. Commandant Pauline Gower described her as "a charming and gallant person." Honor Pitman married...
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women pilots, (one in eight of all ATA pilots) under the command of Pauline Gower. The first eight women pilots, Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona...
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Five ATA flyers Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Audrey Sale-Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower in 1942 by an Airspeed Oxford trainer...
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this, Heron-Maxwell met Pauline Gower to discuss signing up with Cobham, and got some useful information about terms from Gower. Her colleagues in the...
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