Where To Stream Wartime Farm Season 1 Episode 5
Episode 5
- Aired October 4, 2012
- 60 Min
- Rated 8.0
- Number 4 Of 8 Rated Episodes
The Wartime Farm team tackles the conditions faced by British farmers in 1942, when Hitler's U-boats continued to attack British ships, slashing imports and inflicting massive shortages on the country. Ruth finds out how Britain coped with shortages of the wood vital for the war effort in the building of aircraft, ships and rifles, as well as pit props for crucial coal mining. With her daughter Eve, she travels to the New Forest and discovers how women known as 'Lumber Jills' were drafted in to...