Women during WWII

[ikillbears]

Doing a little project at the moment about the role of women during World War II. Specifically aimed at the east end of London during the blitz. I heard some mumblings that they were involved in jobs that our chaps would have done if they weren't off fighting the hun, such as rebuilding houses etc. I know they got involved in doing farming work and such in the country side but it would be great and also interesting if any one knew anything / documentaries / books about the ones who stayed in the cities.

 

[Duke]

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sour...aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=29350ea80533d029

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I thought my foot fetish was weird

My nan lived during the blitz.. Some of the stories were amazing. unfortunately, lots of smaller, personal stories will just be taken to the graves.

 

[Biohazard]

They were heavily involved in munitions factories and other war 'output' industries.

What the men left the women eventially ended up doing.

 

[Viper²]

Wasn't the Queen a mechanic??

 

[Burnsy2023]

I thought my foot fetish was weird

It IS weird Huddy.

Wasn't the Queen a mechanic??

Yeah I think so. She was definitely in the services.

 

[Tomsk]

Wasn't the Queen a mechanic??

Ambulance service I think.

EDIT

I was wrong, HRH was a mechanic.

http://www.ww2incolor.com/britain/Lizwar.html

 

[Jonny69]

My great-grandma lived in the east end during WW2, just off Bethnal Green. She was killed on a bus when the V2 hit St Paul's and is buried somewhere in the abandoned Tower Hamlets cemetery. We have a rough idea where the grave is but it's completely overgrown and she never got a headstone. There was a story about her in Britain At War Magazine when we were trying to locate the grave. My grandma (still alive) was evacuated during the blitz when she was about 4 and only found out when she returned to London several years after the death.

I'll try to remember to find out what she did for a living during the war.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

That's an intersting read Jonny.

I do wonder why the Nazis poughed so much money and resources into the V2 project aside from psychological warfare.

While it was highly advanced and had gyroscopic guidance systems years ahead of its time, it was a monumental cost that could only deliver a one ton explosive warhead and was never going to win a war.

That said, while RAF aircraft like the Tempest were fast enough to shoot down the V1, there was nothing to catch a V2.

 

[aproctor]

That's an intersting read Jonny.
I do wonder why the Nazis poughed so much money and resources into the V2 project aside from psychological warfare.

Was none of the tech used in the first jets?

Saying that, Hitler did seem to like the pomp, i mean look at the uniforms.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Messerschmitt did make an experimental rocket plane. Me 163 maybe ?

Their first production fighter jet was the Me262 which had 2 diesel turbojets.

 

[Andy90]

Imperial War Museum (type Women into the search box a the top right - will give you tons of information).

Womens Roles in the World Wars (Wikipedia Article)

The Peoples War (BBC Archive of Personal accounts during WW2) - tons of accounts from both the Armed Forces and the Home Front.

Hope they help.

 

[Andy90]

Saying that, Hitler did seem to like the pomp, i mean look at the uniforms.

Hugo Boss was the supplier of the uniforms to the SA, SS, Hitler Youth, NSKK and other Nazi organisations. He was charged with being a Nazi sympathiser after the War ended

 

[Belly]

My father’s family got bombed out of The Isle of Dogs and moved to Peckham, they were soon bombed out of their too and thinking it was personal moved to the Somerset Levels.

I never did find out if my family were on Hitler’s black list!

 

[ikillbears]

I never did find out if my family were on Hitler’s black list!

Could have been worse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

 

[Old Wino]

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