Lumberjills

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John A. Larsen

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On a Gun Forum, they had a photo of an English woman with an axe on her shoulder. She was one of about 8,000 women who took the place of men during WWII working in the Forestry field and reportedly supplied 60% of the wood needed for various products during the war. They got no official recognition until 2007, and I expect that sadly many of them had died before that. If you Google "Lumberjills" plenty of information on them and several videos too. This was completely unknown to me. I did know that in Finland you could be awarded a Bronze, Silver or Gold axe head pin, according to how much wood you cut for the war effort. John
 
I think in Finland it was bronze for one cubic meter, silver for 8 and gold for 16 cubic meters. There was also one more, but do not recall what it was called and how much you'd have to chop wood for it. Replicas of these are still available methinks.
 
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