How women do men's war jobs. Brawny Women Help Test Big Guns. Three brawny U.S.

How women do men's war jobs. Brawny Women Help Test Big Guns. Three brawny U.S. women ar workers shoulder 90 milimeter shells of a type they experiment with every day at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. At Aberdeen all the fighting tools of the Army and some of the Navy, bombs, shells, guns, bullets, trucks, tanks as well as paints and lubricants are tested. In this work several hundred of American women are engaged, standing day after day within the sound of 9, 12 and even 16-inch guns whose detonations shake the earth, or in firing machine guns, pistols and carbines hour after hour. A great number of these women are chosen for their strength and resistance, but among the workers are slim high shool girls, wearing the red and white handkerchief accepted as the badge of Women Ordnance Workers.