Age is just a number
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Age is just a number
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Edited #2I wouldn't mind reading a bit about that gal depicted in the video ably turning or threading something on a fairly large old-time manual metal lathe, probably manufactured in the mid-1900s with full-blooded American steel (cast iron) on the North American continent. I have the sense it is a turret lathe geared to repetitive work. Maybe not. Particularly, I'd like knowing if she was one of the many, many women employed in industry (factories) supplanting military men in the time of WWII.
But she seems a bit young to show up in a handheld video. Maybe not. Depends on one's assumptions, I guess. Still, I'd like to know. Just out of curiosity.
I got pretty interested in several books published perhaps a decade ago about women resistance fighters in WWII after seeing this photo of Simone Segouin (who one can lookup on Wikipedia or search on a browser). Ten points for the old geezer who can name that weapon she's aiming (off to the side of the photographer).
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@woodburnbobgeorgianow,
A German MP 40 submachine gun.
I can't find any info on the woman in the Facebook Reel. I suspect she is one of the thousands of "Rosie the Riveters" who worked to produce war materials re-enacting a job she did when was young.
Re: Age is just a number
#4woodburnbobgeorgianow wrote:...
I got pretty interested in several books published perhaps a decade ago about women resistance fighters in WWII after seeing this photo of Simone Segouin (who one can lookup on Wikipedia or search on a browser). ...
If you want a read about some women who had absolutely unimaginable courage and patriotism in WW2, have a look at:
https://www.amazon.com/Heroines-SOE-Britains-Secret-France-ebook/dp/B01KOVB4EA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KR7EXWQ6QXYN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.skGJ8oHBCH0lfsuNYXLCwxq15zpqvFJK_hUIjSRKURbY4E07rkaAz-_4cN3TeG1qophg_Vn3SOkhqtqAnTQyuvqW_nJ3SG99vgYueNEUz1I.IlxY6HRA0rQRMGLV1yM0X6tobFfwQgfxkgTUBFIXPYo&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+heroines+of+SOE%3A+F+Section&qid=1713792124&sprefix=the+heroines+of+soe+f+section%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1
Any mention of women in resistance always reminds me of a lady, Jackie Van herWarden, who was a family friend and taught my mother who was in her late thirties to drive - my father had given up. Jackie had the necessary nerves of steel for the task - she was in the Dutch Underground in WW2.