women at war

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

I cant remember if we have a thread or similar on the forum or the best place to put it so i will go for broke and place it here. We are all aware of the part played by the fairer sex in the military spanning many years so to start here are two photos in WW2
1. Nothing will stop these lasses from playing withtrucks
2. Now that is some hand signal or is she about to give the instructer a good slapping

Hi Les

Great photos, now for a couple of questions for our group:

Who can identify the truck or trucks?
In picture of the Gals in the mud what do you think they are doing?
The Mud picture has all the looks of a staged picture for the camera, for a couple of reasons, they look to clean to have been working down in the mud for long, and the only thing they could be doing where the ends of wrenches are would be the axle bolts and why would you be checking them with the truck in deep mud.
In the second the gal looks so stiff, up right and proud that you have to think this is one of the first times she has been the driver.

But great photos, looking at these young Gals all I can think is they'd be my mothers age now (and for some of our group our grandmothers)