With so many men drafted into the Armed Forces many factories and heavy industries relied on women to fill the labour shortage. Often staff working in offices and other professions helped too by ...

Each street had an ARP ('Air Raid Precaution') warden. They were mostly volunteers with day jobs whose responsibility it was to police the blackout. In the event of an air raid they needed to know ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — During World War II, the mail system in Europe was backlogged ... a multi-ethnic female unit of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. that was predominately Black, to head ...