One Indian woman of special note was Noor Inayat Khan.
She became a special agent for Britain, working with the French resistance. She was finally captured by the Gestapo and executed at Dachau Concentration Camp.
Portrait of WRIN (Women's Royal Indian Naval Service) auxiliary S D Bhagvat during a visit of Vice Admiral J H Godfrey to the WRNS signal school at Bombay, 1945.
Indian women labourers, engaged in airfield construction work, pass mechanics working on a Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator bomber at a base in Bengal.