Veronica Volkersz

Veronica Volkersz
Volkersz c. 1940–1945
Born
Veronica May Innes

(1917-04-17)17 April 1917
Chesterton, Cambridge, England
Died13 December 2000(2000-12-13) (aged 83)
Cambridge, England
OccupationAviator
Spouse
Gerard Volkersz
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(m. 1944)​

Veronica May Volkersz (née Innes; 1917–2000) was a British aviator and beauty queen. She flew for the RAF's Air Transport Auxiliary in the Second World War and was the first British woman to fly an operational jet fighter when she ferried a Meteor from the Gloster factory to RAF Moreton Valence on 15 September 1945.[1][2][3]

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