Specials 4 - Sandbagging - WWII

Specials 4 - Sandbagging captures British women on the home front doing the heavy, unglamorous work of filling and stacking sandbags to protect buildings and civilians from bomb blasts during World War II. From 1941, women were called up for war work in roles such as mechanics, engineers, munitions workers, air raid wardens, and bus and fire engine drivers.

By mid-1943, almost 90 per cent of single women and 80 per cent of married women were working in factories, on the land, or in the armed forces — no job too tough, no task too heavy.

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