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Women's roles during WW11
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David | Report | 10 Nov 2016 11:51 |
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David | Report | 9 Nov 2016 18:57 |
Thank you for that M. whatever tor meant. I know I'm not perfect. |
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magpie | Report | 9 Nov 2016 18:35 |
Yes I know about the bad leg etc from way back, but on other threads conversations and advice always go into the long grass. It doesn't matter, but sometimes seems a bit odd. |
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LaGooner | Report | 9 Nov 2016 16:40 |
Magpie, David has health issues and does not always get back on threads instantly |
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magpie | Report | 9 Nov 2016 15:56 |
David quite often doesn't come back to the thread when he is ever so slightly challenged. Not quite sure he why he posts in the first place if he's not prepared to follow it through! :-S |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 9 Nov 2016 09:55 |
Having seen a party celebrating where I was eating recently (they were well behaved) and the ladies of the army camp doing runs carrying backpacks, I wouldn't stand a chance at anytime during my life against them. They are, in the main, tall, well built and fit. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 Nov 2016 08:13 |
And another one I heard from the mouth of a well-retired uniformed officer (although not armed forces), Sylvia. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 Nov 2016 01:37 |
David ..... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Nov 2016 18:30 |
My Mum was only 9 when the war started, but her elder sister trained to be a nurse in 1942. Mum's younger brother was born in 1940, so gran couldn't work. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 8 Nov 2016 17:31 |
My Mum left school at 14 and worked at an office job for a large company. She survived the Blitz in Southampton (but her workplace didn't). She joined the WAAF at age 18 in early 1942 and worked at RAF Records in Gloucester. She was billeted with my Gran and met Dad when he was on leave from the Army. She did fancy the Land Army, but Grandad wanted something a bit less 'tough' for her :-) |
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magpie | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:59 |
Both my parents were in the air force. My mother had to leave when she was expecting me in 1942. My father was killed in December 42 after a bombing raid over Duisburg. He and his comrades were shot down by a nightfighter over Noor Brabant. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:59 |
Thank you. Very proud of what my parents achieved as well as my daughter and bless her she's only 5 ft 3 ins. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:51 |
Too right, Pat. :-D |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:40 |
Well said Joy Louise. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:35 |
My Mum served in the WAAF during WW2 before having me during wartime whereupon she left - that was, I believe, compulsory at the time even though she worked in civvy street after my birth. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:30 |
My dad worked in the Woolwich Arsenal so he wasn't called up or accepted when he tried to join up because he was on essential war work |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:21 |
Here is my mother, a photo taken in 1942 for her 21st birthday. |
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magpie | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:12 |
David, surely you are aware that until very recently woman haven't been allowed to partake in combat?!! All those years ago it would have been thought totally inappropriate by society in general and all men in particular to put women in that sort of danger, as well as the fact that they would have been considered a liability. Men protected country, home and hearth, which loosely meant women and children. (women and children first, remember that?!) Yes, women played a big and important part in keeping the home fires burning, ferrying planes, de coding, plotting aircraft, (my own mother was part of that very important work) but fighting? I don't think so!! |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 8 Nov 2016 15:07 |
The women weren't exempt David, they weren't allowed to. |
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Barry_ | Report | 8 Nov 2016 14:54 |
Here's info about pilot Marion Orr of Ontario. |