Josephine Baker in the uniform of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Free French Air Force. By the autumn of 1944 she had raised 3,143,000F for the French war effort and was awarded the honorary rank of sub-lieutenant in the Ladies Auxiliary of the Free French Air Force, Les Filles De L’Air. She gained her pilot license in 1933! Photographed at the Savoy Hotel, London April 1945 ~
Josephine Baker – “The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
June 7, 2018
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