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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!