D-Day+75 years is tomorrow, and with all of the attention being paid to the invasion itself, I would like to note the contributions of the women in Britain who toiled in the fields. The Women’s Land Army.
PBS Masterpiece ran a beautifully presented and addictive soap opera, Home Fires, about women in a rural village during the war. I was really caught up in it, but the series ended abruptly after the second season.
Clare Calbraith played a farmer’s wife, which meant her character didn’t need to join the Woman’s Land Army, she just had to “carry on.” Clare was nevertheless presented in clothing that was in keeping with the service.
For a view of women working in factories there is the wartime movie “Millions Like Us.” It has strong soap opera elements, which not only make it entertaining, but show what they were fighting for — lives that aren’t lived for the glory of a dictator.
