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2007-02-23 04:50:32 · 5 answers · asked by israr 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Keeping the home fires burning'
World War 1
Nursing, farming etc - domestic work
World War Two- Working - in factories
Making the arms the soldiers used
Making everything else
Working on farms
Surviving on rations - Examples of rations per person - one spoon of butter a week, no eggs, no bacon, no sweets, one orange a week if you were pregnant, one small piece of meat about the size of a small mobile phone per person per week, etc.
Surviving and not complaining-
Example - 24 hours for my Mum in World War Two -
9.pm - as volunteer nurse, washing many men soldiers before their bed-time including leg stumps etc, giving tablets
Midnight -she is cleaning dead bodies and getting them ready for burial
5.00am- she stops, turns off light walks to door, one of dead bodies spasms and touches her bottom, scary.
6.00am walks in total darkness (no lights allowed as bombers could see them) bangs into post, damages nose
Dawn - walks down her street. She sees her neighbour's house has been cut in half by a bomb; Mum sees her neighbour sitting at a table glass through her body, she is dead.
Just after dawn - Mum goes to bed, she MUST she is needed to work tonight, she has no time to grieve or complain

What did they talk about- weather, rations, men, when they came home, weather. But they never complained because as Mum said " then Hitler would have won. We had to support OUR men and win, win, win"

2007-02-23 06:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by teacher groovyGRANNY 3 · 0 0

World War I -- mostly nursing and Red Cross

World War II -- "Rosie the Riveter" doing all kinds of traditionally male jobs at home and for the military, nursing again, Red Cross again, and USO

2007-02-23 04:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0 0

lengthy earlier the warfare, women human beings joined the medical Corps of both the US military and army. My tremendous-aunt turned right into a nurse who became adorned for her action treating the wounded on Oahu on December 7, 1941 in the course of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She lower back and lower back went over to ships that were burning to assist deal with and evacuate wounded sailors and Marines.

2016-12-04 20:34:48 · answer #3 · answered by plyler 4 · 0 0

Nurses, truck and bus drivers, cryptologists, spies, interpreters.
Even Queen, then Princess) Elizabeth was an ambulance driver.
Women now are in combat arms roles in Canada and one was recently killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan.

2007-02-23 05:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by kellring 5 · 0 0

They had jobs making equipment, munitions, vehicles, tanks, etc. in factories for the front lines.

Oh, yeah, and the nurses as the first guy said, too.

2007-02-23 04:58:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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