Rosie the Riveter

Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB)
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Rosie the Riveter

Postby reinaart » Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:59 pm

Some weeks ago I happened across this pic of a British Rosie working on a Vosper :

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Re: Rosie the Riveter

Postby reinaart » Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:14 am

There are quite a few pics of Wrens working on MTBs in the IWM collection as well :

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Interestingly the German army only had some female radio/telephone operators and not even female drivers. The tasks performed by Wrens didn't fit the image of women in Nazi ideology (women were primarily considered to be wives and mothers).

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