Jeez, it's just bloody cosplay for Eddie, isn't it? 
Just think about it a minute. Very very few women who served in WWII are still alive, but they are out there and it wouldn't have been impossible to find one. If, instead of a genuine, 'was there' veteran, they had asked a much younger woman to wear a 40's outfit and talk, I suppose that would have been still ok (if they had a special interest in the era, were a WWII historian etc). But they couldn't offer a perspective as a woman who had BEEN there could.
Now, a few removes from that scenario, we have a cosplaying biological male who wasn't born then, was not 'there' and is not a woman, nor has any credentials to being an expert on the era - yet is asked to represent 'women at war'. Is Eddie proud of their female heritage and of their historical sisters in WWII? Sorry, not trying to be satirical, just trying to get my head around the thought processes and willing suspension of disbelief/delusion that this must entail! 