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Hope that's of help

Munitions workers at New Brighton between shifts in 1943, courtesy of the IWM website. Not sure that the wall painting at left is very PC...

More pics can be found here.

Can somebody tell me why they had women operating on/producing heavy ammunition rounds?

No worries Carol, glad to help

Because the men where mostly at the front line.

I think its because the majority of blokes were either fighting and those unfit enough would be acting as home gaurd, using women for jobs formerly carried out by males lessened the strain on on things enabling more men to be on the front line so to speak.

I think this was instrumental in the way society saw women and was the start of women finding their own independance and not being not so reliant on the men.

Hardly heavy. A typical 20mm cannon bullet weighed about 100 grams and I guess the whole cartridge not more than 250 grams.

Heavy in bulk, besides I wasn't on about weight Chris.

Would of thought the ladies would of been making clothes.

Has some really good history behind those tunnels.

Thanks for posting, great thread

Apart from the shortage of men, there was a propoganda element as well.

Wars can be lost when the people (not the government) have had enough. Getting the people active in the war effort is a way of keeping them "on side".

there was not much need for propoganda when it came to the majority of people doing there bit for the war efort. Unless you where one of those would have welcome Hitler with open arms given the chance. It was not just in the 2nd world war that women worked in the munitions factories and every other industry apart from possible the coal mines.