What did you do during the War, Mummy

[Shalimar]

My mother worked as a bomb girl, in Sorel, Quebec. She made torpedoes.

 

[Pinky]

Being Japanese-Canadian, with my father enlisted in the Army, my mother was not interned at a camp, but allowed to work in the sugar beet fields. Once the war was over, she was an independent seamstress, and worked from home.

 

[feywon]

Answer, I volunteered as a surf lifesaver.



Not me personally, mind. I wasn't born until 1943 but the women of my mother's generation turned their hands to all sorts of unconventional roles and occupations to assist the war effort and to keep the home fires burning.

My Mother worked in Bomb Factory in NJ. She met my Dad when his Merchant Marine ship was picking up some to transport to other services. My favorite maternal Auntie was a WAC, mostly doing transport and clerical work to free up men for the front lines.

 

[Aneeda72]

My grandmother was a WWII army nurse.

Forgot to add, my mother worked in an aircraft factory during WWII. I have forgotten the name, dang it.

 

[Warrigal]

It wasn't only women who stepped up. My grandfather, who had been a postmaster but had retired came back into service during WW II to release younger men. We have a photo of him as a white haired old man working at the counter of the post office. His wife was quite sick at the time with cancer. She died in 1942, the year before I was born.