Roles Of Women During World War II

Women during World War II Even though men were more involved, women had a part in World War II as well. Women had jobs during World War II, but they weren’t as dangerous. One of the jobs that women held during World War II was Airforce service pilots. Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, was one of the lesser-known roles that women played in World War II. I think that women did great serving our country, but some helped the Nazi’s.

Women should have never participated with the Nazi’s in World War II. Some women took the role or were forced to but that is no excuse. In August 1940, there were only 7,000 women in the WLA, which stands for Women's Land Army. Unfortunately, the women that helped Hitler are unable to hide what they did,
Lydia was the very first female to shoot down an enemy plane in World War II. She Was born in Moscow, Russia on August 18,1921. At the age of 14, she entered a club for flight enthusiasts and by the time she was 15 she was piloting a small aircraft. In the late 1930’s she earned a flight instructor licence. Edith Hahn was a brave and courageous woman during World War II. She was born on January 24, 1914 in Vienna Austria. Edith married a Nazi officer to survive the Holocaust. It was pretty brave of her to marry an officer and pretend not to be Jewish. She pretended by stealing the identity of a christian nurse. When the war ended her husband got deported by the Russians to Siberia. In the 1950’s she reclaimed her Jewish identity; however, she fled to west Germany when the Russians tried to make her become a spy.

Susan Travers was living in France when the war broke out. Born in southern England as the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, and raised as a young tennis-playing socialite in the south of France. Susan trained as a nurse for the French Red Cross. She lead 2,500 troops to the safety of an allied encampment. Susan helped a lot of people during the war and did it because she loved being in the French Red