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World War Two: We know that the people of Wales raised thousands of pounds to sponsor warships and aircraft. In Bridgend this amounted to £215,623 for HMS Urge, and across Glamorgan people raised £11 per head, the fourth highest amount raised anywhere in England and Wales. This money supported the cost of building war machines, but they were not made here. Yet one of the biggest stories of Wales in World War Two was The Arsenal, (The Royal Ordnance Factory). At its peak, 32,000 people were working in the Bridgend Arsenal, (ROF), filling bombs and making munitions for light guns, smoke, signals and heavy shells. The workers travelled by train and bus from Carmarthenshire to Monmouthshire. Most of the workers were women and they had to work with volatile, dangerous materials. Inevitably