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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 26 May 2018
From snipers to moms: World War II exhibit focuses on women

"The Nazis wanted women
to be wives and mothers.
You see photos of wom-
en doing outdoor tasks in
great physical shape — this
was not so they could fight,
but so they could bear chil-
dren," says Sue Wilkins, the
museum's education direc-
tor.
Across the English Channel,
more than 640,000 British
women served in auxiliary
services, performing non-
combat work such as han-
dling massive searchlights
In this Monday, May 21, 2018, photo, Sue Wilkins, director of ed- In this Monday, May 21, 2018, photo, Sue Wilkins, director of
ucation at The International Museum of World War II, in Natick, education at The International Museum of World War II, holds a to spot enemy aircraft in-
Mass. 1945 newspaper photograph at the museum, in Natick, Mass. tent on bombing British
cities. Photos of everyday
By SARAH BETANCOURT, For many women, wartime uniform and a photo of a ers. women working in the Roy-
Associated Press was about more than ra- smiling Bernheim looking at Also included in the exhibit al Naval Service are starkly
NATICK, Mass. (AP) — The tioning food for their fami- a map. is a light green uniform la- contrasted with a photo
terrors of World War II im- lies. Not all women had such belled "Lebensborn." The of then-Princess Elizabeth
pacted most of the world's In the Soviet Union, 400,000 dramatic roles, but millions frock was worn by women wearing the uniform of the
women, both on the home women drafted as "Red across the U.S. served as associated with the Nazi Auxiliary Territorial Service
and battlefronts. Army girls" filled roles as postal workers, trash col- group tasked with raising and working under the
A new exhibition opening doctors and even snipers. lectors and manufactur- the birth rate of Aryan chil- hood of a car.
Friday at the International One photograph shows ers, roles previously held by dren. The women worked The exhibition is on display
Museum of World War II paranurses jumping out of men. at centers that provided through Oct. 7.q
in Natick, Massachusetts, a plane into a war zone, A 1945 photograph shows free health care to unmar-
highlights just that — the im- strapped with medical sup- 24-year-old Fern Corbett ried mothers often impreg-
portant and sometimes un- plies to save wounded sol- "pinch-hitting as a window nated by SS officers. Many
conventional roles women diers. washer" 10 floors above a children were adopted by
took on during the war. Kathryn Bernheim became Minneapolis street — a far other SS members and their
"It's about the human story," one of 27 American wom- cry from her original job as families.
founder Kenneth Rendell en chosen by the Army the company's stenogra- The philosophy of wom-
explains. "We're thrilled to Air Force in 1942 to ferry pher. en dedicating their bod-
have the opportunity to planes in the Women's Some women could not ies and minds to the Third
showcase and honor wom- Auxiliary Ferrying Service risk being as visible in their Reich is even more appar-
en's service to the war ef- program. As a civilian with daring new roles. Female ent in three swastika-em-
fort." more than 1,000 hours of members of the French re- blazoned crosses. Women
"Women in WWII: On the flight experience, Bernheim sistance would load forbid- who bore four to five chil-
Home Fronts and the Bat- flew aircraft like the P-47 den radios and weapons dren received a bronze
tlefronts" is composed of Thunderbolt, relieving men into the secret compart- cross; six to seven a silver.
more than 100 artifacts for combat flying until poli- ment of a baby carriage, Those who birthed eight
from the U.S., Soviet Union, tics ended the program in like one showcased in the or more children received
Germany, Japan, France 1944. The exhibit showcas- collection, risking their lives a golden cross from Adolf
and Great Britain. es her flight jacket, dress walking past Nazi occupi- Hitler.

Daniel Craig to return as 007 in 2019, Danny Boyle at helm

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daniel Boyle's frequent collabora- EON said that after more
Craig is back as Bond, the tor John Hodge. than a decade at Sony Pic-
spy series' producers con- Confirmation of Craig's fifth tures, Universal Pictures will
firmed, in a Danny Boyle-di- Bond film followed specu- release the next installment
rected film due for release lation that the 50-year-old of the superspy franchise
in 2019. actor was about to hand in internationally.
Bond producers Michael G. his license to kill. He said in MGM will handle the U.S.
Wilson and Barbara Broc- 2015 that he would rather release.
coli of EON Productions "slash my wrists" than return Sony's Bond contract ex-
announced Thursday that to the role — but later back- pired in 2015 and many of
production on the 25th of- tracked on those remarks, the major studios compet-
ficial James Bond thriller will made just after he finished ed for the chance to dis-
begin in December at Lon- filming his fourth Bond film, tribute the profitable fran-
don's Pinewood Studios. "Spectre." chise.
Craig will reprise his role Boyle has directed Craig As per tradition Bond 25
as 007 and Oscar-win- as Bond once before, in a will open a bit earlier in the
FILE - In this Monday, April 9, 2018, file photo, actor Daniel Craig ner Boyle ("Trainspotting," 007-themed segment for U.K., on Oct. 25, 2019, than
attends The Opportunity Network's 11th Annual Night of Oppor- ''Slumdog Millionaire") will the opening of the 2012 in the U.S., where it will de-
tunity Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
direct from a screenplay by London Olympics. but on Nov. 8, 2019.q