Wonderful to see this very little story being told. We, at Western Approaches HQ Museum, are determined to ensure WATU and the young women who made it a success, are never forgotten.

@WAS_ENG

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment! Your story was very inspiring to us. It's an honor to receive praise from professionals in the field.

I met one of these girls once, and she was still as indestructible in her nineties. She left me in no doubt why Britain won the war

Whilst women didn't fight on the front line, one of the many reasons the Allies eventually won was the mobilisation of women into factories, transport and the Services. These stories, along with many others, show how these women had a direct and vital role in fighting the war.

There’s an excellent book on this called “subs and birds” My father who was a dispatch rider during the war use to deliver dispatch’s to a building behind Liverpool town hall could well have been this building but of cause he never knew who they were.

Nice so men and women worked together to defeat a common enemy. So important to not let certain media make out it was a competition between men and women and that one had to be better than the other.

I wonder what it felt like working without windows and without natural light? I never realised that it was actually underneath my feet as I walked across that paved area around the monument / sculpture. And I worked in Derby House for a time.

What a topic for a TV (Netflix?) series. You would see a who's who of young actresses competing for roles in a series like this, plus a lot of established actors would want to be a part of something so historically significant as this was!

@pamelaiverson5527

5 ай бұрын

Except a lot of romantic nonsense would overtake the real story as with Operation Mincemeat

@philingram9281

2 ай бұрын

A TV series has already been created. Here in Sydney on SBS I have been watching over the last 3 weeks (2x1 hour episodes a week) a series called War Gamers which gives an account of the role of Roberts and the WRENS in the defeat of the NAZI UBoats. Two more shows to go. It is not a drama but rather a documentary with plenty of actors playing the parts and also various historians giving an account etc. Quite interesting.

@davidyoung5114

2 ай бұрын

@@philingram9281 Thanks for telling me about this series. I've located it elsewhere on KZread (we don't have the History Channel any more on the basic Cable-TV package here in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia!)

Thank you very much for this video.

Great video, giving credit where credit is due to to these young women!!❤❤

If people were to consider the amount of mind games that women throw at each other on a daily basis, its no wonder why they excel at situations like those

Some of the WRNS at WATU became renowned academics post war.

Remarkable and those girls never ever got recognised for their work 😢 disgraceful 😮

Amazing

excellent ❤

There was never 100`s of U Boats at sea.

@generaljackripper666

7 ай бұрын

Stop noticing things.

Did some of the Wrens live at the Blundellsands Hotel? Conveniently alongside the railway to get into the City

As a former sonar wren, I’m agog. BZ Girls, BZ❤❤❤❤

The National was actually the UNITED KINGDOM, not Great Britain which was expunged on 31st December 1800.

Another historic comment. In one of those views on your video the Liver Building looks very black. That was carbon and smoke pollution over many years. At some point circa 1980 they shot blasted it to return it to the colour of the stone which you see today

Women in the 30s and 40s is one tough girl

Wow, that was a real game of battleships. And the women were so young. Britain has never properly recognised or acknowledged our real heros. It would appear that most of them are better remembered and respected overseas. What is it with us Brits and our stupid humility. No wonder we are taken advantage of, when we are not taught the true scope of our contribution to freeing others? For a small island nation, we've been punching above our weight for centuries.

This is how history gets bastardized and twisted.

There are some fragile ego men children on here. Google Jean Laidlaw and learn how a 21 year old women was MVP.

Lol lol lo

Horrible click bait title and poor misleading narration.

What utter nonsense. The German U-boats were defeated by the development of better sonar, depth charges, aircraft-based radar, depth-charging aircraft, increased convoy escort, including carriers and their aircradt and hunter/killer groups that took the offensive against the U-boats

@bronkomeister

12 күн бұрын

Read a game of birds and wolves. You might learn something.

You mean women that pushed around toy ships on sticks when told to move them?....this aint one for the feminist im afraid and title is total click bait for clicks, very shameful really..maybe do one on womans auxiliary air fleet that will give them more kudos on the click than this??,