Thread: Defence of the Reich: Female Fighter Controllers?
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Old 10th November 2021, 20:54
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Re: Defence of the Reich: Female Fighter Controllers?
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Originally Posted by Boomerang View Post
Larry:

Thank you for such a clear and thoroughly researched response. Your comments reflect what I have always understood to be the absurd under-utilisation of its female population by the Reich (which contrasts dramatically with many Allied nations).

The employment of a female controller, as described by Caldwell, strikes me as incongruous, a view reinforced by your reply. It may be that why a female controller was directing III/JG 26 on 24 April 1944 is an issue that can't be clarified at this remove. Another (minor) WW2 puzzle.

Thanks

Don W

"absurd under-utilisation"? Why do you draw that conclusion? I have seen many, many female flak helper photos and then there were the women who worked in factories and for various other firms involved in war work, plus in communications and clerical work.


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Ed
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