Women and World War II
General
Tending the Homefront: Many of the Roles of Bay Area Women During World War II
By Donna Graves
World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/womenatwar.htm
World War II
History and Collections
Women in Military Service for American Memorial Foundation
http://www.womensmemorial.org/historyandcollections/history/lrnmrewwii.html
Collection Highlights—World War II
History and Collections
Women in Military Service for American Memorial Foundation
http://www.womensmemorial.org/historyandcollections/collections/colhighlights.html
I Too Serve America: African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940-1945
by Lionel Kimble
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Winter 2000/2001
http://www.zinkle.com/p/articles/mi_qa3945/is_200001/ai_n8880587/pg_2?pi=znk
Pictures of African Americans During World War II
compiled by Barbara Lewis Berger
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/index.html#home
Women at War
People at War
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/women_who_served/wafs_wasp.html
It’s a Woman’s War, Too!
Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/its_a_womans_war_too/its_a_womans_war_too.html
War Work and the Role of Women
America on the Homefront: Selected World War II Records of Federal Agencies in New England
http://www.archives.gov/northeast/boston/exhibits/homefront/#women
War Jobs for Women
Office of War Information
Magazine Section
Washington, D.C.
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/p0163.pdf
Negro Women War Workers
Women’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0001.pdf
Women in the War
My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt
Washington, October 15, 1943
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/md_wi_04.html
“A World at War Demands the Service of Women in Scores of New Occupations”
Massachusetts State College, 1942
http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/umass/30-3dean-of-women/18opp/1942-44/
Search under Women
Historic Government Documents from World War II: A Digital Archive
http://worldwar2.smu.edu/
World War II
Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History
Houghton Mifflin College Division
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_040900_worldwariipe.htm
Social Changes during the War
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=545
Mobilizing for War
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=543
America at War: World War II
Digital History
Employment of Women in Army Supply Depots in 1943
Bulletin No. 192-8
Women’s Bureau
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0036.pdf
Effective Use of Women in the Defense Program
Special bulletin, No. 1
The Women’s Bureau
U.S. Department of Labor
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0080.pdf
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American Women in Europe
Women Come to the Front
Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters during World War II
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/
Gal Reporters: Breaking Barriers in World War II
Mary Jenkins
National Geographic News
December 10, 2003
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1210_031210_warwomen.html
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Red Cross
American Red Cross Clubmobile
http://www.clubmobile.org/
Industry
Women at War: Redstone’s WWII Female Production Soldiers
Redstone Arsenal
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/women/welcome.html
Rosie the Riveter: Real Women’s Workers in World War II
by Sheridan Harvey
Webcast and Transcript
Journeys and Crossings
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/rosie.html
Employment of Women in the Manufacture of Cannon and Small Arms in 1942
by Margaraet Kay Anderson
Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 192-3
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0078.pdf
Women in the Sugar Cane Industry
Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 192-9
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0064.pdf
Women’s Employment in Artillery Ammunitions Plants, 1942
by Martha Ziegler
Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0033.pdf
Women’s Employment in Aircraft Assembly Plants
by Ethel Erickson
Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0046.pdf
Rosie the Riveter: WWII American Homefront Project
Regional Oral History Project (ROHO)
Bancroft Library
UC Berkeley Library
[Interviews]
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/
Records of the Women’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, 1918-1965.
By Judith Sealander, Department of History, Wright State University
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/womens_studies/womlab.asp
American from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White and Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945
Search under Women—Employment to find pictures taken by photographers of the Office of War Information to promote the support of the war efforts
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsaquery.htm
Selling Rosie the Riveter: How Advertisements in Ladies Home Journal Sold American Women Their Role in World War II
F. Marie Valgos
http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/94BerkeleyMcNairJournal/23_Valgos.html
Image of Women in World War II Advertising
Amy Schneider
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/publications/Discoveries%20Fa1997/11.pdf
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Farming
Women’s Land Army
Oregon State Archives
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuwla.html
Pitch in and Help!
The Women’s Land Army Calls 800,000 women to the Farm in 1944
Extension Service
War Food Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/a0041.pdf
Women’s Land Army Works for Victory
Extension Service
War Food Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/a0026.pdf
The Women’s Land Army of the U.S. Crops Corps 1944
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/a0074.pdf
Successful Practices in the Employment of Nonfarm Women on Farms in the Northeastern United States by Frances Valentine
Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/l0081.pdf
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Rationing
99 Ways to Share Meat
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
AWI - 13
Agricultural Research Administration
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Revised in May 1943
http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/a0025.pdf
Baseball
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
http://www.aagpbl.org/
The Women of the All-American Girls Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right
Clement C. GrazOzburn
UW-L Journal of Undergraduate Research VII (2004)
http://www.uwlax.edu/urc/JUR-online/PDF/2004/grawozburn.pdf
A Guide for All American Girls
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/education/primary_sources/women/document_01_small.htm
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Military
Army (WACs)
The Women’s Army Corps: a Commemoration of World War II Service
by Judith A. Bellafaire
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/wac/wac.htm
The Women’s Army Corps
by Mattie Treadwell
Special Studies
United States Army in World War II
Center for Military History
United States Army
Washington, 1991
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/Wac/index.htm#contents
African-American WACs: They Changed Segregationist Military Policy
by Sue Wuetcher
University at Buffalo Reporter
http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol27/vol27n17/n2.html
The Army Nurse Corps
The United States Army
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/72-14/72-14.htm
Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women’s Army Corps
Fondren Library
Woodsen Research Center
Rice University
http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/exhibits/wac/index.html
Angels of Mercy: Nurses Tales
Dispatches
The Battle of the Bulge
American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/sfeature/sf_dispatches.html
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Coast Guard (SPARs)
SPARS: The Coast Guard & the Women’s Reserve in World War II
by Robin J. Thomson, USCG
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_wmnres.html
Marines
Maine Corps Women’s Reserve
World War II
History and Collections
Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation
http://www.womensmemorial.org/H&C/History/wwii(mcwr).html
Free a Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II
Colonel Mary V. Stremlow, USMCR (ret.)
Marines in World War II Commemorative Series
War in the Pacific National Historical Park
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/index.htm
Navy (WAVEs)
The WAVES Collection
Oklahoma State University Library
http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/women/Waves.htm
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Pilots (WASPs)
Women Pilots in World War II
US Air Force Museum
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wasp/wasp.htm
Women in the Military in World War II
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/Women/AP31.htm
Fly Girls
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/
WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
Texas Women’s University
http://www.twu.edu/wasp/
Notable Flygirls
Women’s Airforce Service Pilots
Edwards Airforce Base
http://afftc.edwards.af.mil/articles98/docs_html/splash/feb98/cover/wasp.html
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Spies, Code Breakers, and Resistance Fighters
Women’s Memorial Exhibit Tells Story of Women Spies
by Rudi Williams
Army Communicator
United States Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon, GA
http://www.gordon.army.mil/AC/sumr02/spywomen.htm
Julia Child: Cooking Up Intrigue
by Marguerite Jordan
Military Officier
http://www.moaa.org/magazine/January2003/f_juliachild.asp
The Lady Was a Spy [Julia Child]
NPR
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/apr/spies/
Virginia Hall
Special Operations
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art05.htm
Virginia Hall
World War 2
CIA Hall of Fame
http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/history/hall_of_fame_03.shtml
Women in American Crytology
National Security Agency
http://www.nsa.gov/women/index.cfm
Women of the Special Operations Executive
64 Baker Street
[British Women who Were Secret Agents]
http://www.64-baker-street.org/main/index.html
Honoring Midlred Fish Harnack: From Wisconsin Born and Educated to Resistance Fighter during World War II with the Red Orchestra Movement
University of Wisconsin, Madison Archives and Record Management Services
http://archives.library.wisc.edu/mfh/sectionpages/index.html
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Interviews
What Did You do in the War Grandma?
[Interviews conducted by South Kingston High School with Rhode Island Women who experienced World War II]
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
World War II Women Veteran Interviews
Maine Women Veterans Oral History Project
Maine Studies Program
University of Maine
http://dll.umaine.edu/mainestudy/women_vets/wwii.html
Rutgers Oral History Archives
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/Interviews/indexes/conflictindex.html
Veterans History Project
Library of Congress
Browse under Women’s branches of service.
Click on View Digital Collection to read and hear interviews
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/html/search/browse.html
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Students Sites
Women in World War II by Cristina Giampaoli
[Project for History 175 by a student]
University of San Diego
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/outline.html
Allies
Soviet Women Pilots of World War II by R. Silva
Pratt Institute
http://pratt.edu/~rsilva/sovwomen.htm
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