As men in greater and greater numbers were absorbed into the defence forces their womenfolk stepped forward to play a magnificent part in the factories. By the middle of 1943, there were 8 million women out at work.
 Making guns and ammunition |
 Women went to do the work of the men |
 Women making ammunition |
 A day in the life of a munitions worker |
 Women took jobs in factories |
 Skilled steel worker in a munitions factory |
 Manufacturing aircraft dinghies |
 Working on a wing in an aircraft factory |
 Installing electrical wiring in battleships |
 A woman shaping the nose of a shell |
 Making a bomb in a munitions factory |
 Munitions worker hoists a 500lb bomb |
 Women workers at the London Brick Company |
 Women cleaning the engines of the LMS trains |
