Rosie the Riveter, with her arm raised declared “We can do it,” is an iconic symbol of American women leaving the kitchen for factory and shipyard jobs during World War II. The need was the same in Great Britain, but those women worked out-of-doors on farms and in forests as part of the Women’s Land Army (WLA). Wood was a cheap material, used for telegraph poles, pit props in mines, on aircraft and ships and in the production of charcoal in explosives. Britain had lush forests but also imported timber from Norway. The German occupation of Norway caused a shortage of timber, and in April 1942 … the Women’s Timber Corps was added to the WLA. They were known as Lumber Jills, or lumberjills, a familiar connection with Lumber Jacks. …The most specialized skill was measuring, which included identifying trees for felling, assessing the timber in a tree and measuring the amount felled.