Jane Tedeschi next to one of the aircraft she flew during WWII with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), a group that performed aviation services stateside, covering for the male pilots deployed to the WWII battlefront. She was one of about 1,100 female pilots who moved planes and tow...
America's “secret weapon” was the women who voluntarily mobilized to meet every challenge. U. S. government and industry expanded dramatically to meet the wartime needs. Women made it possible.” This shows how much strength and effort they have put in helping the country. They were such ...
It is unclear whether more juveniles were actually engaging in delinquent behavior, or the police may simply have become more vigilant during wartime and arrested youngsters for activities that would have gone overlooked before the war. In any event, law enforcement and juvenile courts attributed the...
For U.S.history, A special issue of the National Council for Social Studies teacher's journal called "Homefront to Front Lines: Women in Wartime" came out in Feb. 1994. There are two articles covering WWI, and an activity. One described the Land Army which is an interesting activity ...
People participate in a demonstration fighting for justice for Philippine wartime sexual slavery victims of the Japanese troops during World War II in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 14, 2024. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
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Before the war, women’s roles in the household were to simply raise the children and maintain the home, or to take these things off of the plates of their busy husbands hands, but in this era of wartime production women who were married, unmarried, or married and had children went to ...
“to think of a victim as having certain subjective agency who is not involved in the reproduction of violence yet absorbs it. This is her strength.” The agency of the victim and gender roles of women in wartime are also explored byAlena Grom(b. 1976 in Donetsk) in the series of ...
At least 42% of the 18-20 age cohorts and 32% of the 21-25 age cohorts in 1943 worked in the essential industries. Two-thirds of those involved owed their jobs to wartime industrial expansion. The majority of such women entered a world of work that had been previously dominated by men...
with the retort “As long as there are people like you in the world, I don’t want to live.” Through a combination of cunning and luck, Kukiełka managed to escape her captors and make her way to Palestine, where, at just 20 years old, she penned a memoir of ...