I have first hand stories like this.
My maternal Grandmother, Anne, was an Ambulance Driver around Norwich during thickest raids of WWII. Which kind of surprised me because she was very fond of telling me about her first go at driving a car. She drove straight through a plate glass shop window!!
Norwich was bombed in 1940 and BLITZED in 1942.
Anyway. The Origins of Rosie the Riveter ?