Exploring womens' roles in WW2

They knitted balaclavas and socks for servicemen, collected scrap metal, worked in munitions factories, became air raid wardens, war artists and spies, skippered barges, operated anti aircraft batteries, joined the Land Army, flew aeroplanes, drove ambulances and fire engines, trained as wireless operators, de-coded enemy messages. In the words of official government recruitment campaigns at the time "There's not much a woman can't do" Includes my mother's wartime role as a crane driver for a Sheffield steel maker, her medallion and the Women of Steel statue