Women's Land Army Has Hen Party During World War II

From the Flashback page in the National Geographic Magazine. You can see this one, I didn't get the date, at www.ngm.com.

The photo shows three women wearing overalls walking down a road from the back and each carrying two chickens under their arms.

The caption reads: "Recruits of the Women's Land Army take poultry care in stride while training in Northamptonshire, England, in 1940. During World War II "land girls" from all over Britain were asked (and eventually conscripted) to work on farms as replacements for men who had left to fight.

By 1944 around 80,000 women had been enlisted to grow the country's food. In recent years the U.K.'s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has recognized more than 34,000 former land girls for their wartime service."

I had never heard of this group before. There is a good article in Wikipedia about it. Apparently, the organization also existed during World War I.

All for the War Effort. --Cooter