A Message From The Queen.

[Jock Scot]

Certainly all true, and according to accounts I've been given, in WWII the Soviet's top army sniper and air combat flyer, plus many other combat aviators, were women as well. Historically women were recruited when a country was backed against the wall and then told they had to step down when the danger had passed. But they did not serve in combat on the Allied side in WWII, that was my point.

I don't wish to be pedantic here, but try telling that to the WAAFS at he Ventnor radar station, or the RAF stations in the South of England as the German bombs were raining down on them, or to the WAACS(later WRACS) as they "manned" the Anti Aircraft guns between 1939 and 1945. WW2 was probably the only war in history where the civilians and the women of the services of Great Britain were in the "front line" and with the greatest of respect, I think you are being rather grudging with your definition of "combat".

I seem to recall that Her Majesty was commissioned in 1945.