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image captionEleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary
One of the last surviving Spitfire Women , who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.
Eleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.
The ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.
Mrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.
During the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.