Portrait of WW2's Women

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  1. Prelude44

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  2. Home Front

    Home Front Junior Member

    Ludmila Pavlichenko, WW II Russian Sniper:
     

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  7. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

    Some uncaptioned photos I found.

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    For the first photo, Za.


    Twenty-eight-year-old Elizabeth Mortimer stayed at her post as a telephonist in the armoury throughout the attack. She was injured, but nonetheless set off limping around the airfield to plant red flags to mark the positions of unexploded bombs. She was among three WAAFs to receive the Military Medal.

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    BY AUGUST 18, 1940 everyone at Biggin Hill knew the airfield was on Goering's agenda, especially the vigilant staff in Operations Block and those who had heard on the wireless the upper-class nasal bragging of Lord Haw Haw: "This is Germany Calling,
     
  8. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    A couple of photos taken by Cecil Beaton at the Tyneside Shipyards in 1943. I'm going to take a look at the full collection on Friday at IWM North.

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  9. Capt Bill

    Capt Bill wanderin off at a tangent

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  10. Capt Bill

    Capt Bill wanderin off at a tangent

    LOOK OUT Lads - Its Matron with the cod liver oil again!

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    Wriggly tin huts in Belfast
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  11. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    For the first photo, Za.

    Thank you so much, I had been emailed a bunch of photos at random and I was so pleased to read the great story behind the photo. So another face has a name and a story.

    How many people honoured themselves by raising to the occasion!

    By the way, I raise my glass to the other contributors to the thread, great photos all :)

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    As for Capt. Bill's second photo, that was what I did this saturday but on reverse: I went to my regular blood donation, 2-3 times a year. I'm surprised they accept my blood, I have no idea how many receivers have gone incurably mad by receiving mine :D
     
  12. dave500

    dave500 Senior Member

    A U.S. Army Signal Corps' photo from the NARA II, College Park, MD.

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    "Members of the first large contingent of WACS to arrive
    in England meet their first WREN. Left to right are Ann Hollowell,
    a WREN, ?ington, Kent, Mary F. Williams of Burlington, N.C., and
    Cpl. Grace Jackson of Atlanta, Ga., both WACs.

    "Scene is near Stone, Staffs., Eng."

    Date: 17 July 1943

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  13. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    More of the Rosie Sisters. In the background the 6,000th B24 at Ford's Willow Run plant.

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  14. peaceful

    peaceful Senior Member

    It's wonderful to see these stories and pictures paying tribute the contribution of women!

    I was interested in the outdoor photo of the Belfast hospital wondering if a few more able bodied service men were included? It wouldn't surprise me. Or were they serving another purpose at the hospital?

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  15. peaceful

    peaceful Senior Member

    On this thread acknowledging the role women played during WWII I would like to pay tribute my mother.

    My mother, Kathleen Dugdale, was a civilian nurse in the city of Blackburn, in a childrens' hospital at the age of 17. This is her story, told to me many times and she always immitated the matron and made me laugh. Hope you enjoy it.

    During the nights that the air raid sirens blared, it was her duty (only nurse on shift and in semi-darkness) to get all the children on the ward out of their cribs, gas masks on, and underneath their crib to protect them from flying glass.

    The children were all excited and wouldn't stay put.

    There was a gas chamber that held 2 babies which required manuel pumping of oxygen. If there were three or more babies, only 2 must be chosen.

    The matron's bedroom was directly above. In the middle of the chaos, the
    telephone would ring. She would say to my mother, "Can't you keep those children quiet?"

    I wonder who she rang about keeping the sirens quiet?

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  16. peaceful

    peaceful Senior Member

    The hard working quiet everyday women did not look for glory, and were satisfied in knowing that they did what they could, no matter how small, for the service men.

    I'm talking about all the women who knit socks to try to bring comfort to wet cold tired feet.

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  17. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I have no idea who this French woman was but she likely brought comfort to somebody.
    I'd suspect that her fraternisation brought her problems with tarring and feathering when liberation came.

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  19. PearsonM

    PearsonM Junior Member

    Amazingly, beautifully, stunningly!
    These photos are adorable in that way that represent steadfastness and optimism of the women of the ww2.

    They all are so shining, as if there's no war outside and inside their hearts.
    They just realize that their help, even small one, can save somebody's life.
    Thanks for this post!
     
  20. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

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