Airforce personnel using a slide rule

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Date
1940-01-01
Copyright Owner
© Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Keywords
Analog; Hand calculation; Slide rule
Object ID
500001040

During World War II, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) personnel used slide rules to calculate bomber routes, undertake meteorological forecasting, and plot aircraft positions.