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ROF Aycliffe : ウィキペディア英語版 | ROF Aycliffe
ROF Aycliffe, was a Royal Ordnance Factory built on an site off Heighington Lane, Aycliffe, County Durham, England during the early 1940s. ==The "Aycliffe Angels"==
The factory's workers included 17,000 women from the surrounding towns and villages, who worked filling shells and bullets and assembling detonators and fuses for the war effort. They became known as the "Aycliffe Angels" after a Nazi propaganda broadcast from Lord Haw-Haw threatened that "The little angels of Aycliffe won't get away with it" and promised that the Luftwaffe would bomb them into submission. By its nature the work was very dangerous and many workers were killed and injured during the manufacturing process; however due to the secrecy surrounding the factory and its workers, many incidents went unrecorded and unreported in the news and their efforts went unrecognised. In 2000 local newspaper The Northern Echo launched a campaign to have their work officially recognised, this led to a memorial service which was attended by Prime Minister and local MP Tony Blair and the Queen. A permanent memorial was also placed in Newton Aycliffe town centre commemorating their efforts.
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