[jambutty]

Maybe the schools should invest in that excellent TV programme “The World At War”.

I got the full series in a boxed set for about £60 I think it was and worth every single penny.

One episode a week as part of history lesson with a discussion afterwards would be very interesting, especially if any of the kids had a grandfather who lived through the war.

There may not have been many women in the armed forces in those days but the various resistance movements would not have been anywhere near as successful as they were if it wasn’t for the women. And of course there were women in the merchant marine, the almost forgotten 4th arm of the armed forces, yet they were civilians.

Then there were the women pilots who flew the planes from the factory airfields to the operational airfields.

And who kept the home fires burning during the blitz and coped with the rationing of everything including bread whilst holding down a job making munitions and planes and guns and tanks?