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Members of the British Women's Land Army harvesting beetroot (1942/43) Women's Land Army Badge. The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military.
Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War. ISBN 978-1-59797-273-4. (excerpts in Smithsonian; NPR interview.) Stephanie A. Carpenter (2003). On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. ISBN 978-0-87580-314-2. "Agriculture" in The Great Plains During World War II, ed. by R. Douglas Hurt. The Plains ...
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-Black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps (WAC) [1] that managed postal services. The 6888th had 855 women and was led by Major Charity Adams. [2] It was the only all Black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War II. [2]
People who were members of the British Women's Land Army (World War II) (also known as Land Girls) Pages in category "Women's Land Army members of World War II" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Farm women had expanded duties, with the young men absent at war. They were helped by prisoners of war from Italy and Germany. The Women's Land Army recruited tens of thousands of young women from urban areas for paid labour on farms that needed them, at about 30 shillings a week. Wages for available male farmworkers trebled during the war to ...
Florence Louise Hall was the chief of the Women's Land Army from April 12, 1943 until the end of World War II. During her term, at least one and a half million non-farm women joined the farm effort to help alleviate the wartime farm labor shortage. [1] Florence Hall was born in 1888 in Port Austin, Michigan.
Amelia King (25 June 1917–1995) was a British woman who was refused entry into the Women's Land Army, during World War II, because she was black. This example of racial segregation in the UK was debated in the House of Commons and was covered in newspapers internationally including The Chicago Defender. The decision would eventually be reversed.
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...