Female Icons in WWII

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By: wolfbyte (27 month(s) ago)

For some reason there are a couple of slight glitches on the uploaded version of this that showed up. Sorry about that. Also, the mp3 music didn't get embedded which begins at slide 12. Not like you can't appreciate the pictures after that, but the song did add more to it.

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Female Icons in World War II : 

Female Icons in World War II A Video Essay by Karen West

1939 : 

1939 Germany invades Poland. World War II begins. © US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

1941 : 

1941 Germany invades USSR. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. As men were drafted, this left scores of women behind to take on the tasks of those now in service. © Naval History & Heritage Command, www.history.navy.mil

ID Badge : 

Women found this time of war as one of great personal, economic opportunity. -1940- 14 Million Working Women -1945- 19 Million Working Women © Smithsonian Institution, Catalog #: 1994.0121.01 ID Badge

Slide 6: 

© 1942

1943 : 

“We Can Do It!” - J. Howard Miller - Westinghouse Corp. - Still symbolic of strength and beauty women possess. 1943

The Real "Rosie the Riveter" : 

The Real "Rosie the Riveter" Model: - Mary Doyle Keefe - Age 19 Cover of the Saturday Evening Post’s May 29, 1943 edition .

Rosie & Rockwell : 

Rosie & Rockwell Keefe was a part-time telephone operator & was paid $5 for each of the two days she modeled. © 2007 Tia Ann Chapman, The Hartford Courant via AP

Interpretation : 

Interpretation

Slide 12: 

© 1942

1945 : 

David Conover was an Army photographer on assignment by army magazine Yank. Conover photographed women working on the assembly line. He posed this woman attaching a propeller to a drone aircraft.… © 1945 David Conover, US Army 1945

Do You Know This Girl? : 

Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty © 1945 David Conover, US Army Do You Know This Girl? Marilyn Monroe

June 1942 : 

June 1942 Working on airplane motor at North American Aviation’s plant © Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

August 1942 : 

August 1942 Pearl Harbor widows went into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) is a supervisor in the Assembly & Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. She finds housing for women workers from out of state, like drill operator, Ethel Mann, seen here on the left. © 1942 Howard R. Hollem

October 1942 : 

October 1942 A “Rosie” rivets an A-20 bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach, California © 1942 Alfred T. Palmer

1943 : 

1943 "Rosie" working on the A-31 Vengeance bomber in Nashville © Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

Slide 19: 

A Rosie at Sperry Gyroscope Company © Life Magazine

1943 : 

© 1943 Library of Congress 1943 Welders at Landers, Frary & Clark plant New Britain, CT

Slide 21: 

Welder with her face shield raised © Life Magazine

Slide 22: 

Thank You!