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American women at home and at the front during world war II
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Yellin, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5809 - B
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, rolgedrag, militaire beroepen, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949
- Description
- The author describes the different roles of women during the Second World War, a war that changed the way women participate in the American society. Described are the lives of wives, mothers and sisters of servicemen: the female defence industry workers, the female entertainers, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), women in the army, Red Cross Girls and nurses. The book contains also chapters on African-American and Japanese-American women, chapters on spies, politicians, journalists and other professional women, the 'wrong kind' of women (prostitutes, unwed mother, lesbians), the Right Wing and the Anti-Semitic Mothers' Group.
frontline U.S. army nurses in World War II
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Monahan, Evelyn
- Creator
- Greenlee, Rosemary Neidel
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5844 - B
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, verpleegkundigen, militaire beroepen, Amerikaans, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Italië, Noord-Afrika, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The authors have created a narrative that brings to light the role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines. This research is - amongst others - based on many interviews.
the world war II letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, women's army corps
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bugbee, Sylvia J. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Fenner, Lorry M.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5814 - B
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, loopbanen, tweede wereldoorlog
- Description
- From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel served in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women’s Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.
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