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Working Women:
The British Army established the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) to perform shore duties while men served during World War I. During World War II, thousands of WRENS and FANYs were the backbone of code-breaking operations.
While others received glory and praise for breakthroughs, these women tirelessly performed the daily duties of monitoring and processing coded messages and moving the reams of paper generated in the pre-computer age. |