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However, these roles were not without risk, and there were, according to the Imperial War Museum, 717 casualties during World War II. [6] ATS women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942. Two projectionists of the Auxiliary Territorial Service operate a projector at the field stores, Aldershot, in 1941.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British people of World War II. It includes British people of World War II that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
The WRAF - Women in the Blue: Working through the Second War years—Royal Air Force official website; The Work of Women in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, The Second World War Experience Centre, Leeds UK "Women as Ground Crews", reproduced from The Aeroplane, No.1686, 17 September 1943; WAAF Association
The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War , it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War , remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993.
Monument to the Women of World War II (looking north) The initial design involved a female Air Raid Warden sheltering children; however, this was simplified until the final design was created. [2] The bronze monument stands 22 feet (6.7 m) tall, [6] 16 feet (4.9 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide. [4]
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.