Doris Weatherford - American Women during World War II, Książki USA
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AMERICAN WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR II
World War II was a con ict that affected every American. Young and old, soldier and civilian, each person had a part to
play in the national defense.
American Women during World War II: An Encyclopedia
documents the lives and wartime
contributions of American women in a handy A–Z format. The book describes the efforts of women in of cial and
semi-of cial military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, from
aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing, and much more.
Biographical entries bring to life the struggles of American women serving in the British armed forces prior to the
creation of U.S. military units for women, while other entries explicate the experience of American women caught in
Japanese attacks on Asian cities that took place years before Pearl Harbor. The collection is illustrated with 137 rarely-
seen images, and each entry is cross-referenced and includes a guide to further reading on the topic.
Discussing crucial events of the war on the homefront and on the battle eld, and describing institutional changes in
everything from schools and hospitals to religion and the workplace,
American Women during World War II
provides
a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library.
AMERICAN WOMEN DURING
WORLD WAR II
An Encyclopedia
Doris Weatherford
Cover Image Credits
African-American Red Cross workers hand out doughnuts and coffee to tank personnel overseas.
Courtesy of American Red
Cross
Navy nurses, out tted in fur-lined parkas, gloves, and boots, stationed at the 1st Naval Air Station Dispensary, Attu, Alaska,
November 1943.
Courtesy of Women in Military Servie For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
War correspondents type their dispatches, to be cabled to their home newspapers, in France in July 1944, the month after D-Day.
From left to right: Virginia Irwin,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
; Marjorie Avery,
Detroit Free Press
; and Judy Barber,
New York Sun
.
Note the pup tent in the background which constitutes a home.
U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo, Women in Military Service For
America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
American women packing “Bundles for Britain” for use by civilians whose homes had been bombed by Germany before the
U.S. entered the war. The newspaper used as cushioning indicates that these bundles likely contained glass bottles of medicines.
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Army nurses put on their gas masks after the gas has been released during an actual test, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1945.
Courtesy
of U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo, Women in Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Women, with hoe and rake in hand, modeling two types of uniforms worn by the Women’s Land Army when planting and
harvesting war food crops.
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Wong Ruth Moy, who survived Japan’s bombing of Canton, works in a Los Angeles aircraft factory in 1943.
Courtesy of Library
of Congress
An Army ight nurse supervises the loading of a patient aboard an evacuation aircraft in Burma. These young women did an
outstanding job in a new and dif cult role.
Courtesy of Women in Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
First published 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Weatherford, Doris.
American women during World War II : an encyclopedia / Doris Weatherford. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Women—United States—Encyclopedias. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, Female—Encyclopedias.
3. World War, 1939-1945—War work—United States—Encyclopedias. 4. Women—United States—History—20th century—Encyclopedias.
5. Women—United States—Biography—Encyclopedias. I. Title.
D810.W7W435 2009
940.53’7308203—dc22
2009011171
ISBN 0-203-87066-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-99475-6 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-87066-2 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-99475-0 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-87066-2 (ebk)
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