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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1783953" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1471920_692654187531043_3964418711963640523_n.jpg?oh=f0c1bb946c87305090b0730e5b29362d&amp;oe=55D4CBC0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Girls working on shell caps in a munitions factory, somewhere in England. 25th of May 1940.(Nb. The photographer, Paul Popper covered the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940, so this could well be somewhere in Southern England)One and a half million women toiled in dirty and dangerous factories to provide troops on the frontline with vital ammunition.Acid burns were part and parcel of the work and many received much more serious injuries while the plants they worked in were key targets for Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombers.War historian Simon Fowler says: “Britain could not have emerged victorious in 1945 without the help of the many who selflessly worked all the hours they could to provide the materials the British Army and Allied troops used to defeat the Germans.“Workers could often be identified by the yellow skin they had because of the dangerous chemical compounds they came into contact with and were known to many as ‘canaries’.&quot;People were injured or killed while making munitions every day.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1783953, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1471920_692654187531043_3964418711963640523_n.jpg?oh=f0c1bb946c87305090b0730e5b29362d&oe=55D4CBC0[/IMG] Girls working on shell caps in a munitions factory, somewhere in England. 25th of May 1940. (Nb. The photographer, Paul Popper covered the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940, so this could well be somewhere in Southern England) One and a half million women toiled in dirty and dangerous factories to provide troops on the frontline with vital ammunition. Acid burns were part and parcel of the work and many received much more serious injuries while the plants they worked in were key targets for Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombers. War historian Simon Fowler says: “Britain could not have emerged victorious in 1945 without the help of the many who selflessly worked all the hours they could to provide the materials the British Army and Allied troops used to defeat the Germans. “Workers could often be identified by the yellow skin they had because of the dangerous chemical compounds they came into contact with and were known to many as ‘canaries’. "People were injured or killed while making munitions every day." [/QUOTE]

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Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982