Cormeau, awarded the MBE, the Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre and Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance. Flight Officer Alix D'Unienville Flight Officer Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville), awarded the OBE, George Medal and Croix de Guerre. Section Officer Mary Katherine Herbert Section Officer Phyllis Latour Section Officer Cecily Lefort, posthumously awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Section Officer Patricia O'Sullivan Sergeant Haviva Reik (aka Ada Robinson) Assistant Section Officer Lilian Rolfe, posthumously awarded the MBE and the Croix de Guerre. Section Officer Diana Rowden, posthumously awarded the MBE and the Croix de Guerre. Section Officer Anne-Marie Walters, awarded the MBE. Flying Nightingales Nursing Orderlies of the WAAF flew on RAF transport planes to evacuate the wounded from the Normandy battlefields. They were dubbed Flying Nightingales by the press. The RAF Air Ambulance Unit flew under 46 Group Transport Command from RAF Down Ampney, RAF Broadwell, and RAF Blakehill Farm. RAF Dakota aircraft carried military supplies and ammunition so could not display the Red Cross. Training for air ambulance nursing duties included instruction in the use of oxygen, injections, learning how to deal with certain types of injuries such as broken bones, missing limb cases, head injuries, burns and colostomies; and to learn the effects of air travel and altitude. In October 2008 the seven nurses still living were presented with lifetime achievement awards by the Duchess of Cornwall. Gallery See also Air Transport Auxiliary Auxiliary Territorial Service National Association of Training Corps for Girls Women Airforce Service Pilots (US) Women's Army Corps (US) Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force Women's Royal Naval Service Military ranks of women's services in WWII Notes References Further reading Escott, Beryl, Women in Air Force Blue, Patrick Stephens, 1989. Escott, Beryl, Our Wartime Days, The WAAF in World War II, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995. Escott, Beryl, The WAAF : A History of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, Shire Publications, 2003. (also quoted at in context of Czech WAAFs) Gane Pushman, Muriel, We All Wore Blue: Experiences in the WAAF, Tempus, 2006. Halsall, Christine, Women of Intelligence. Winning the Second World War with Air Photos, The History Press, 2012. Manning, Mick & Granström, Brita: Taff in the WAAF (English Association Award Winner), Janetta Otter-Barry Books (Frances Lincoln), 2010. Rice, Joan, Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF, Harperpress, 2006. Settle, Mary Lee, All the Brave Promises: