The Secrets of WW2's Women Soldiers
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Women in the Front Line of the German Civil War
Until april 19 forty, one girls couldn't be on operational sits. That changes in april 19 40 when a female electrical engineer is allowed to prove she can do the heavy work of loading and manoeuvring guns. So that hopped over the genderis so that churchill could present this to parliament - yow, we're oing to conscript girls. They will be working on gun sights, but they won't be firing the guns, so they won't being combatants. Now, of course, you're just as likely to die in one of t man i wored with her best friend died on a gun sight aged 18, because the shrapnel that's falling doesn't discriminate
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