{"id":5056,"date":"2021-12-09T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/?page_id=5056"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:12:08","slug":"women-in-world-war-ii-panel15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/?page_id=5056","title":{"rendered":"Women In World War II – Panel 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Women in World War II took on a variety of\u00a0roles from country to country. Several hundred\u00a0<\/span>thousand women served in combat roles,\u00a0<\/span>especially in anti-aircraft units.\u00a0<\/span>The U.S. Government decided not to allow\u00a0<\/span>women in combat because public opinion\u00a0<\/span>would not tolerate it. However, 400,000 women\u00a0<\/span>served in uniform in non-combat roles in the\u00a0<\/span>U.S. armed forces; over 500 died from warrelated\u00a0<\/span>incidents. Many women served in the\u00a0<\/span>resistances of France, Italy and Poland, and in\u00a0<\/span>the British Special Operations Executive. Other\u00a0<\/span>women, called \u201cComfort women\u201d, were forced\u00a0<\/span>into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese\u00a0<\/span>Army before and during World War II.<\/span><\/p>

Australian women played a larger role in World War II than they had done\u00a0in World War I. Many women wanted to play an active role, and hundreds\u00a0<\/span>of voluntary women\u2019s auxiliary and paramilitary organizations had been\u00a0<\/span>formed by 1940.<\/span><\/p>

In Germany, 1944-45, more than 500,000 women were volunteer uniformed\u00a0auxiliaries in the armed forces. About the same number served in civil aerial\u00a0<\/span>defense; 400,000 volunteered as nurses, and many more replaced drafted\u00a0<\/span>men in the wartime economy. They also served in combat roles helping to\u00a0<\/span>operate the anti-aircraft systems that shot down Allied bombers.<\/span><\/p>

The Soviet Union mobilized women at an early stage of the war, integrating\u00a0them into the main army units. More than 800,000 women served in the\u00a0<\/span>Soviet Armed Forces during the war. About 300,000 served in anti-aircraft\u00a0<\/span>units and performed all functions in the batteries\u2014including firing the guns.\u00a0<\/span>A small number were combat flyers in the Air Force forming 3 bomber\u00a0<\/span>wings and joined other wings.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Around 250,000 joined the Auxiliary Territorial Services including some\u00a0200 Mauritians. They performed a wide range of jobs which ranged from\u00a0<\/span>cooking and clerical work to manning anti-aircraft searchlight batteries in\u00a0<\/span>support of the Army. 74,000 women joined the Women\u2019s Royal Naval Service\u00a0<\/span>and 182,000 integrated the Women\u2019s Auxiliary Air Force. These jobs ranged\u00a0<\/span>from traditionally feminine roles like cook, clerk and telephonist to more\u00a0<\/span>traditionally masculine duties like mechanic, searchlight and anti- aircraft\u00a0<\/span>instrument operator. British women also joined the Special Operations\u00a0<\/span>Executive (SOE), as secret agents and underground radio operators.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Women in World War II Women in World War II took on a variety of\u00a0roles from country to country. Several hundred\u00a0thousand women served in combat roles,\u00a0especially in anti-aircraft units.\u00a0The U.S. Government decided not to allow\u00a0women in combat because public opinion\u00a0would not tolerate it. However, 400,000 women\u00a0served in uniform in non-combat roles in the\u00a0U.S. armed forces; …<\/p>\n

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